On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 04:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Apologies if you've already considered this, but I wonder why you > > don't > > just do a fresh install of F38 (or F37). It would have been much > > quicker than all the futzing around you've had to do, and you could > > have seized the opportunity to expand the /boot partition to 1GB. > > > > My system is probably about as old as yours, and I did this a year > > or > > two ago when BTRFS became the default filesystem (though I was > > already > > using it for /home). Haven't regretted it since. > > My sentiments, exactly. Upgrades in place were a pain when I did > them > donkey's years ago, and I repeatedly see threads like this on this > list > (despite someone else's thoughts that they don't). > > Sure, if things go fine there's an ease of doing nothing more than an > update. But when things go haywire, and they often do (immediately > or > later on), there's an awful lot of housekeeping to go through. > > And, there's more than just updating files with newer versions. > Their > can be filesystem changes, different partitioning schemes, etc. Some > of which are very difficult to manage in an update over the top. Just to clarify: I almost always do an upgrade. The reinstall I mention was probably the first one I'd done in over 5 years at the time. I don't normally have any problems, but little by little a lot of cruft tends to accumulate so once in a while it's good to house-clean. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
