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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04:26AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> Seriously dude, this looks like a dumb scheme that gives you warm |
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> and fuzzies but doesn't actually accomplish anything except increased |
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> complexity. |
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I came up with this way back when I was using another distro that |
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didn't do "rolling upgrades" like Gentoo. As a matter of fact, on |
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occasion, it wouldn't do *ANY* type of upgrade, except nuke and |
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re-pave :( |
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This disk setup allowed me to... |
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* boot from an install CD |
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* manually wipe the contents of /boot, /tmp, /var. /usr, opt, /etc, etc. |
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* and then install the latest version from CD |
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...*WITHOUT* having to move my data and home directory to another disk |
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and repartion+reformat+restore. |
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It also avoided having to re-size partitions whenever my space needs |
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would change. |
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All the advantages of lvm without the "increased complexity" of lvm. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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