On 17.09.2012 22:39, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > I'm about to take the plunge and upgrade, I've upgraded systems in the > past with varying degrees of initial success and eventually everything > works out ok. > > My problem this time is I have 2 systems running F16 x86_64 the Systems > are almost identical and I know they will cause me some grief so I'm > looking for some suggestions. I think that migration of second system is easier so I'd do it first to see how it goes. > System 1 - > /boot - md1 - sd[ab]1 > / - md127 - sd[ab]2 > swap - md3 - sd[ab]3 > /usr - md5 - sd[ab]5 > /var - md6 - sd[ab]6 > /home - md7 - sd[ab]7 > > > System 2 - > /boot - md127 - sd[ab]1 > / - md2 - sd[ab]2 > /var - md3 - sd[ab]3 > swap - md5 - sd[ab]5 > /home - md6 - sd[ab]6 > > > System 1 is obviously going to give me issues due to the separate / and > /usr partitions, looking at the space available on root there maybe barely > enough to move /usr to the / partition, however there is room to move / to > the /usr partition. How much sense does it make to move the partitions > (in single user mode) and if I move / to the existing /usr partition how > to I tell the kernel where the new / partition is during startup? This kind of information is passed to the kernel by grub. Look at /etc/default/grub for appropriate options. > Next issue and it affects both systems is that /var is a separate > partition, I found on the release notes for upgrading via YUM that there > are some extra steps due to the separate partition. I'm not aware of any issues related to having separate /var partition but I was doing a fresh install with separate /var so it might be a different story. > Lastly is the raid1 setup also going to cause me grief? if so any > suggestions on how to deal with it? I have Fedora 17, encrypted LVM on RAID1 and it works perfectly! I can't remember any problems during installation but you should carefully "assemble" custom file system based on the old one. Paper with some notes what goes where is very helpful. > > System 1 is all superblock 0.90 and System 2 is all superblock 1.2 except > boot which is 0.90 > > Thanks, Jeff > Mateusz Marzantowicz -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
