On 10/30/2013 10:14 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-10-29 07:43 (GMT+1100) doiggl@velocitynet.com.au composed:
Is your ISP or the webmail service you use on the other side of the International Date Line from you? Your email date is always a day before all the other dates in your email headers:
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; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:34:51 -0400 (EDT)... Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:34:47 +0000 (GMT)... for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:34:45 +0000 (GMT)... for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:34:45 +0100 (CET)... Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:34:39 +0100 (CET)... for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:34:39 +0100 (CET)... for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:34:35 +0100 (CET)... Received: from webmail.velocitynet.com.au (unknown [203.17.154.41]) by mail.velocitynet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A98B60072 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:34:32 +1100 (EST)... MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:43:44 +1100 From: ... Will it possible to keep the file system in place for / when 13.1 is released Prefer not change its format from 12.3 for /
The openSUSE installer does not require formatting of / at installation time. It's a bad idea to reuse a normally populated / partition. If you want to preserve filesystem formatting, you should manually delete at least the system binaries (/bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, /var/lib and the like) before beginning installation.
Nearly always I prepare the / target in advance, rarely allowing any Linux installer (other than Fedora, which will not proceed with installation otherwise) to create a new / filesystem.
Holy 1997 Batman! You can certainly upgrade in place with OpenSuse, even skipping a couple releases without any ill effects. It does a beautiful job of it. There is no reason you would have to format or do anything with your partitions. The upgrade process will remove depricated packages, and overlay replaced ones, and leave those it does not recognize alone. Absolute worst case is you have a small amount of detritus in your system that will never be used and will cause no ill effect. And there is no reason that you can't retain Reiserfs root partition, unless 13.1 forcefully deprecates Reiseerfs, which I have not heard anyone suggest. The suggestion that you have to delete a whole bunch of binaries to upgrade is ludicrous in this day and age. Its not the 1990s any more Felix. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org