Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 02:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
Save the contents of /home, /opt, and /etc on DVD or something. If you have a /usr/local, save that too.
I save everything >:-)
Do a fresh installation, subject to the following advice:
For ease of upgrading in the future, put /home and /opt on their own partitions. You can make /usr/local a symbolic link onto the /opt filesystem
I believe in linux, or in suse, /opt is not required for that purpose, as it is only populated with files from rpms. But instead, /usr/local is not.
kde3 and gnome both install in /opt, as wll as some other software.
On all future upgrades, do a fresh installation, making sure to NOT format the /home and /opt filesystems.
It's also advisable to put /tmp on its own filesystem (to minimize the chance of corruption on the root partition).
Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using the scsi device name convention.
I've heard about that...but until 2003, my Linux desktop machine was 100% SCSI, and my laptop here is SATA, which I understand follows a lot of SCSI conventions, even on non=Linux machines. I've never come close to 15 partitions on a disk So, no, I've not personally noticed it, but on the other hand, I haven't had a reason to notice.
In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to a single partition.
Yep. If the root partition has to be fsck'ed, I'm already on "Plan B"..and it's very easy for it to quickly progress to "Plan C" (root partition repair) which can easily turn into "Plan D" -- reinstalling the whole OS... And if the original fsck were caused by a corrupt file in a directory that doesn't need to be on the root filesystem, well then, I've gone from an easily manageable problem to Plan B, C or D for...no good reason at all. That's why I keep as little as possible on the root partition -- if the OS or its configuration isn't being modified, then I don't want ANY writes going to the root partition (except /etc/mtab). Here's the partitioning on my laptop: akulkis@kulkix:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 1012M 463M 498M 49% / udev 1013M 172K 1013M 1% /dev /dev/sda6 9.0G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr /dev/sda7 6.0G 1.2G 4.9G 19% /var /dev/sda8 10G 2.6G 7.5G 26% /opt /dev/sda11 64G 47G 17G 74% /home /dev/sda9 2.0G 804M 1.3G 40% /tmp /dev/sdb1 79G 21G 58G 26% /windows/c akulkis@kulkix:~> Significant Symbolic links: /var/tmp -> /tmp /usr/local -> /home/local /local -> /home/local But the developers want us to put every thing into a
few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot of data to have on a single partition.
For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow.
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