Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Guy Johnston wrote: >>> I didn't think anything was supported. :) Seriously, I wasn't expecting >>> to upgrade. I already have /home on a separate partition (highly >> That's a very good idea which I haven't heard before. I'll probably use >> that in the future. The only way I'd thought of for keeping the home
Isnt reinstalling every time you update a real pain? reinstalling all your packages, copying backups back into place, etc, etc? Give me dist-upgrade any day ;) >> directory when reinstalling was to temporarily copy it onto some kind of >> removable media such as DVD, or onto a partition for another operating >> system if you have one. I suppose the only disadvantage with that >> technique is it means you have a smaller limited space for your home >> directory. > > Well, the real issue is that you have to "partition" (so to speak :) ) > your space up front. I personally devote 50 GB to /home and 25 GB to / > . That's working out fine, and I still more than 20 GB free on both . > I think a Logical Volume Manager could allow dynamic reallocation of > these partitions, but I don't think that will be necessary. > > Matthew Flaschen > 25 / ? thats huge :O My two partitions: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 2.1G 7.6G 22% / /dev/hda3 98G 66G 28G 71% /mnt/Storage and that does me for everything :) (i have 4 gig of swap, which naturally doesnt show on / :)) kk -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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