On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 22:54 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Also consider how much free space you need on / to perform a > "preupgrade". Hint: a lot. I remember someone asking me on IRC why Mandriva bothers to split large urpmi (yum equivalent) transactions into small groups. This is the answer. :) > I really don't think automatically splitting /home is a good idea. Any > heuristic is just that, heuristic. It's inevitably going to fail in some > cases. Mandriva and SUSE (and possibly Debian? Not sure) have been doing it for years and it really hasn't been hurting many (if any) people. I read every post to the Mandriva forums for four years from 2004 to 2008, I think there were maybe five or six people in all that time who filled up / (and it was usually because something had actually broken and started spewing zillions of bytes into log files or something, and in that case, it'd fill up / eventually no matter how big it is...). >From doing some Googling, it seems Ubuntu have come up with an alternative approach, which is for the installer not to wipe out /home on an existing install... https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-May/004210.html -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
