beej...@gmail.com wrote: > 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. Is Ardour in 9.04 broken?? I guess I don't know what "somewhat broken" implies. If it is broken, there are going to be a lot of sad people!
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