On Apr 25, 2009 7:43pm, Scott <ubuntustu...@troutpocket.org> wrote:
I'd like to chime in here and suggest something that may help people in the future.
Linux partitioning is quite robust and provides a great opportunity to do seamless
upgrades. If you create two 10-20GB partitions at the front of your volume and leave
the rest for '/home/' (minus a couple GB for swap at the end) you can do system
upgrades without breaking your previous setup.
I alternate releases between the two 20GB '/' partitions and always set my '/home/'
and 'swap' to the same partition leaving it untouched. That way I can comfortably
test or upgrade new releases without breaking my production system while having access
to the same settings and data.
If you went with the default 'everything in "/"' install, you can use gparted from a
live CD or USB-boot to adjust your existing partitions to accommodate the method
above. As always, backup first if adjusting partitions isn't in your blood and make
sure you have enough room when you resize. YMMV
-Scott
Thanks for the advice, Scott, I'm actually going to try to do this with the release of Jaunty, now that I feel more comfortable with Linux in general. At the moment, I can't use Ubuntu Studio properly for my production machine because of the somewhat broken state of the Ubuntu Ardour packages. So I'm going to set up one Jaunty regular partition, and one Studio partition so that I can continue testing Studio and hopefully help out in its development in any way I can.
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