Thanks Axel, On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:42:40 +0100 Axel Braun wrote:
Hello Bob,
Am Montag, 14. März 2022, 18:16:11 CET schrieb Bob Williams:
This machine has Leap 15.3 installed on a 250GB M2 NVME drive. This is very wasteful of space, and I'd like to repartition the drive and then reinstall Leap 15.3 in a smaller partition. I plan to use BTRFS with snapshotting enabled. I'm thinking 50GB would be ample.
It depends on what you do, the usage on the system partiton can be quite demanding (databases, build environemnts, etc), so it is not only snapshots that you need to consider. So one can be OK with 40G, one other may need 60-80GB.
The current system is using ~37GB. No big databases etc.
/home is on a separate rotating rust device.
Good
I'd like to get the system back to its current state as quickly as possible, so my work plan is:
1) Reinstall Leap 15.3 from appropriate media (I have a DVD), reformatting the M2 NVME drive at this stage.
2) Upgrade the new installation (I believe this happens concurrently during installation nowadays?)
If you have enbled online-repositories, yes.
3) Reinstall all my current applications.
To do step 3) what do I need to copy from the current installation? something in /etc/zypp I believe?
If you save a copy of /etc you should have all relevant stuff. using opi (OBS package installer) for reinstallation might be the most convenient way (as it adds the repsoitories by itself )
So I'd copy back /etc then install opi? -- Bob Williams