At 02:22 PM 4/4/07, Peter Fraser wrote:
I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written
anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition
but with disks these days that is not normally a problem.
First copy away the "important parts" of the root partition
onto another partition. What is the "important parts" is up to
you, but should include any changes that you have made to
the root partition. I use the ROOTBACKUP code in /etc/daily
which copies the root partition to another partition on
a separate disk, so that is done automatically.
If you've got the space to waste on a large root partition; wouldn't it
make more sense to simply leave the original root partition as a small
slice and create a partition used exclusively for installing new releases;
then merge from this 'install' partition to your live partitions.
