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

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On Monday 22 May 2006 07:52 am, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
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> 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

Interesting idea... but going between FC1 and FC4 like this could be dangerous 
I would think (LVM/2.4 to LVM2/2.6)... no?  I hear that it's mostly 
compatible... but have never relied on or trusted this before. Anyone have 
experiencing doing that?


> -- 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.

What I do is do a reinstall assigning /home to just be a part of / 
initially... make a temp mount for the old /home partition (/home-OLD for 
example), mount it.. manually move over all non-app folders:
	cp -a /home-OLD/tweeks/* /home/tweeks/

then maybe a couple of no-brainers such as .ssh, .smb-credentials 
and .signature....

Done.

You're right.. you don't want to copy over stuff like .kde .mplayer .mozilla 
etc...	


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

Hmm... 
you done this before John?  I'm not sure if I want to implement snapshots 
(sucks drive space) on my laptop...

Tweeks