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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes?
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:35:49 +0000
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On 05/01/15 13:21, Marc Haber wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk>
> wrote:
>> Does anyone run with what you might call two or three generations of system
>> bits of the OS - perhaps on two or three separate partitions, and apply
>> fixes to one of them at a time?
>
> I used to do that. Way to complicated. A rescue system does the same
> job and does not need that much maintenance.

I run 2 root + boot FSs - so I can install the next version and still 
have my old system accessible while I debug and polish the new one.

Also means I have my old /etc available too when booted to the new OS.