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Re: Upgrade Problem

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On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On 01/04/2019 01:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2019-01-04 12:57 (UTC-0500):
> > 
> > > I haven't messed around with partitioning since the early days of
> > > Slackware, and that was with a great deal of trepidation?
> > You just multiplied my curiosity about what exactly was responsible for your current partitioning
> > scheme, not to mention what will be used for your planned reinstallation.
> The installer for Debian Stretch has an new option thzt  thought I'd
> try.:  separate /home, /var and/temp partitions.

Ignoring /home as it dwarfs / in size, it would be very easy to make a
mistake if you take an existing installation and hive off the /tmp and
/var into separate partitions. The problem boils down to leaving the
existing /var contents (in the root filesystem) in place when you
mount the new var partition onto /var, thereby making those files
inaccessible.

> Over the last 50+ years as  Research Scientist I have tried to follow
> the policy that it's all right to make mistakes..  As long as you try
> not to make the same mistake in the same contiguous four hours - that
> is if you make a mistake in the morning, wait until that afternoon to
> repeat it.  But even more important from the mistake and try not to
> repeat it. I think that making mistakes is an integral part of the
> scientific method.
> 
> Of course, there is a corollary - you can't teach an old scientist new
> science.
> 
> Having babbled for the last two paragraphs, I'll close buy saying that
> I will revert to the entire installation on the same partition.

I would advise you to keep your separate /home partition. Except for
dot files/directories, they're independent of the OS. It makes
reinstallation and upgrades a lot easier.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 17:20 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Problem steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2019-01-04 17:50 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 18:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 21:50 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 22:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-05 15:50 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 10:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-05 02:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Problem Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 18:20 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 19:00 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-04 19:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 20:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 22:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-05 02:30 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-05 10:30 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 16:30 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-01-07 04:00 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-08 15:40 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 19:30 +0100

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