On 2021-05-21 14:57:17 Michael via tde-users wrote: > 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 As an IBM mainframer, brought up to always isolate application from system components, I always did this as a matter of course. Before the advent of RAID and terabyte storage volumes, the other reason for doing this was to prevent disk-head thrashing (still pertinent for those of us still using rotating storage). (Ideally, I should have a separate volume for swap, but in that respect I'm cheating by using a partition on my system volume.) Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.9 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ 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
