Carlos E. R. wrote:
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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.
kde3 and gnome both install in /opt, as wll as some
other software.
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.
I've heard about that...but until 2003, my Linux desktop
machine was 100% SCSI, and my laptop here is SATA, which
I understand follows a lot of SCSI conventions, even on
non=Linux machines.
I've never come close to 15 partitions on a disk
So, no, I've not personally noticed it, but on the other
hand, I haven't had a reason to notice.
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.
Yep. If the root partition has to be fsck'ed, I'm
already on "Plan B"..and it's very easy for it to
quickly progress to "Plan C" (root partition repair)
which can easily turn into "Plan D" -- reinstalling
the whole OS...
And if the original fsck were caused by a corrupt
file in a directory that doesn't need to be on the
root filesystem, well then, I've gone from an easily
manageable problem to Plan B, C or D for...no good
reason at all.
That's why I keep as little as possible on the root
partition -- if the OS or its configuration isn't
being modified, then I don't want ANY writes going
to the root partition (except /etc/mtab).
Here's the partitioning on my laptop:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 1012M 463M 498M 49% /
udev 1013M 172K 1013M 1% /dev
/dev/sda6 9.0G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr
/dev/sda7 6.0G 1.2G 4.9G 19% /var
/dev/sda8 10G 2.6G 7.5G 26% /opt
/dev/sda11 64G 47G 17G 74% /home
/dev/sda9 2.0G 804M 1.3G 40% /tmp
/dev/sdb1 79G 21G 58G 26% /windows/c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>
Significant Symbolic links:
/var/tmp -> /tmp
/usr/local -> /home/local
/local -> /home/local
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.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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