On Friday 21 May 2021 02:41:32 pm dep via tde-users wrote: > said J Leslie Turriff: > I DO > | understand that the team is small and the tasks large, but having the > | same problem pop up after each upgrade, with the same group of > | incoherent 'just do this and all will be well (until next time)' is > | extremely frustrating. > > <slight rant> when i was doing the previously mentioned swap from a failing > MBR drive to a larger GPT drive, i thought there would be documentation -- > instructions -- as to how it can be done. searched and searched. found > people crowing how they had done it with dual boot, or with an lvm setup, > all mine's-bigger-than-yours stuff, but no simple instructions on how to > make the swap without losing data. as a result, what should have taken > half a day took almost three. annoying as all get out. then again, the > reason i didn't want to do a new install was all the tweaks and fiddling > i'd done over the years without bothering to document any of it, so . . . > </slight rant> Hi dep, S'Okay, probably the easiest method is to place /home on a separate partition and then do a 'clean' install while preserving /home. Here’s some (crappy) docs I did on the process. https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=59308&p=587358#p588697 Best, Michael ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
