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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.
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.
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. 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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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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