Les Mikesell wrote:
1) Use the upgrade option.
Is that supported?
AFAIK, yes. The only "iffy" upgrade mechanism is to online update
fedora-release then use yum to handle the package upgrade for you
(Though this generally works fine for me)
2) Have anaconda selectively rm -rf, leaving directories like /home,
/var/lib/xen and so forth alone.
That could be a reasonable option.
Yeah, technically very easy. A bit slow though. Especially if you want
to fsck afterward- just in case.
4) Have a backup system that you can restore from.
A backup isn't really a backup if it becomes your only copy as you erase
the real thing.
True- keep two :-)
Is there any historical evidence for this? Surely there have been
unix-like systems that have defaulted to a different partitioning scheme
before. And certainly some that performed version upgrades without
reformatting.
Friendly version upgrades (much less installations) are a relatively new
phenomenon. Everything other than Linux/*BSD that I can recall using
would format and reinstall. SunOS, for instance, would normally have
partitions for /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /opt, and more. Sometimes I think
the desire to add more partitions to Linux systems stems from the
superstition formed in the days before large hard drives were common
(that does not appear to be the case in this thread).
Here's an alternate suggestion:
Whenever there is a second drive in the system with available space,
make it default to being /home.
Or:
Perhaps smolt data could be tapped to see how many people have a
separate /home on the same physical volume as /. If it's a large
segment of the install base, that's a good indication that making such a
change would be popular, if nothing else.
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