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Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

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On 07/01/2018 05:44 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Let's look at your options.
>
> 2. Buy a nice SSD and a USB-SATA cable. Install stretch on it,
>     keeping to two partitions: / and /home. Copy over /home from
>     your internal disk. When it's all done, swap the internal
>     disk for the SSD.
>
>     Pros: clean system
>           nice fast SSD
>           partitions the size you want them to be
>     Cons: expensive, relatively slow to do.
>
If you can afford it, do this. If you have spinning rust in your
system now, definitely do this. It avoids all the dist-upgrade issues
and the performance improvement is an order of magnitude.

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Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-01 22:20 +0200
  Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-01 23:50 +0200
    Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-07-02 00:20 +0200
  Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-02 00:00 +0200
  Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-02 00:50 +0200
    Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-02 01:10 +0200
      Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-02 03:00 +0200
    Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-02 11:20 +0200
      Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-02 12:10 +0200
        Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-02 13:00 +0200
      Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-02 20:40 +0200
  Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-02 04:50 +0200
  Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-02 10:00 +0200
    Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-03 10:00 +0200
  Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-07-02 19:20 +0200

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