On Tue, 12 May 2015 13:37:47 -0600 jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 05/12/2015 01:23 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 05/12/2015 11:52 AM, jd1008 wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 05/12/2015 12:26 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:53:38 -0600 jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>>> It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide > >>>> a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release > >>>> (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user > >>>> decides (for some reason) to return to the previous > >>>> release. This would completely obviate the need to > >>>> do a backup, and restore - especially for a 1TB or > >>>> more drives (I have a 4TB drive, for example). > >>> Also, and regardless, the default F setup should involve separate > >>> partitions for /home and /usr/local in addition to / and then this > >>> problem would not be a major issue. > >>> > >>> Ranjan > >> You are making a universal assumption, which would not hold true > >> for most people. > > > > Enforcing any rigid partitioning scheme is going to cause problems as > > it won't (and can't) cover every possible scenario. We've already had a > > huge flap about using a RAMdisk for /tmp (and dedicating 50% of your > > RAM for it). This has caused MANY utilities to misbehave because they > > were using /tmp for temporary files (as they should have) and it would > > fill up because it was so damned tiny. Fortunately you can disable this > > bit of lunacy and change /tmp back to a disk-based filesystem. > > > > The unification of /usr/[s]bin with the root filesystem is another > > biggie that's caused huge amounts of heartburn for admins. There's no > > easy way around that one other than having a really big / partition to > > hold everything. This one isn't as easy to crack. > > > > Other than that unification thing, all you can do is make > > recommendations as to partitioning and layout. Everyone's workload is > > likely to be a bit different so "one size doesn't fit all". > Fedup does NO partitioning of any kind, at least none that I know of. > It simply makes use of the existing partition. > It does not modify directories like /home or /opt .... etc. > So, it makes no difference if such directories are on > separate partitions. Someone tried ot make an issue > where no such issue exists. Well, much of the concerns about upgrading/reinstalling are about "losing data". I have always had a separate /home partition and just mounted it unformatted and never noticed a difference from one install to the other (since the days of Fedora Core 1). If you do not have a separate mount, installing does involve a huge amount of time. Hence the suggestion for default behaviour above. Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
