[XCSSA] Monday Night's Meeting? How did it go?

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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 00:15 -0500, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> On Saturday 20 May 2006 10:22, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> > xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> [...]
> > > Suggestion..  Keep a separate /home partition so that you can keep all of
> > > your "stuff" in place when doing major reinstalls (instead of in place
> > > upgrades).
> >
> > Ahha (I just had one of those burned out light blub moments).
> > Partioning for a production environment (which is also good for SOHO
> > use) is something some of us take for granted.  Could this possibly be a
> > short topic for one of the future meetings.  Maybe with a few lessons
> > learned (war stories) of upgrades gone bad.
> 
> With as much as folks in our rag tag group like to do distro flip-flopping and 
> in place upgrades.. yeah.. I suppose a "Resinstall/Upgrade Best Practices" 
> talk would be a good topic.  If no one else wants to do it I guess I can.. If 
> I do, I'll try to keep is as UN*X distro agnostic as possible... and let some 
> of our "BSD elitists" lob random BSD best practices into the mix as we 
> go.. ;)  Good stuff.. it'll also give me a purpose to get off my bottom and 
> get FC5 finally installed.. :)
> 
> Tweeks

FWIW There was a Novell Cool Solutions Article (can't find it now) that
used LVM in order to maximize flexibility in this respect, especially
with upgrades/fresh installs.  The jist of it was:
-- Have a 128M /boot partition and leave the rest LVM. (I modify on
Laptop - Add a swap partition for suspension)
-- Do not format /boot and name the root LVs appropriately, ie root-fc5
-- They recommended not having /home as a standalone LV, but rather
a /data or /Documents, since the X, XWMs, App, and Misc data kept in
'.*' folders may not be compatible or have conflicting settings.

In this way, you can protect 'root*' with snapshots and boot back to old
if needed.

Thanks,
John

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