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091215 James wrote: |
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> I upgraded a kde3 system to kde4. Along the way, |
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> to get past blocking, I had to install device-mapper. |
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> This particular system is all reiserf, except for the swap partition. |
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> Baselayout is 1.12.13 is installed. All is good. Yesterday, |
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> I had to remove device-mapper to so that udev-146-r1 could install. |
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> reading a little bit on this, it seems that I must have lvm2 installed? |
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> lvm2 is installed so all is cool? |
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> Also, I have e2fsprogs installed, but I do not think I need it, |
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> but is it a good idea to just leave it installed? |
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> I do periodically connect other hard drives to recover files and data, |
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> using a usb-2-ide(or sata) cable on this system, |
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> so ext2/3/4 support is probably a good idea, but is it absolutely required? |
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> This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure |
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> I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper. |
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> I have not reboot yet, since all of these changes..... |
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I did the same steps last Saturday & have had no problems. |
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I do need Ext2 for my /boot partition, which is normally not mounted; |
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otherwise, I use Reiserfs + Lvm2 . |
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BTW you can continue to use a few KDE 3 apps alongside KDE 4 : |
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you need to have separate dirs ~/.kde3.5 & ~/.kde4 . |
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