[wplug] upgrading suse 9.0

[Duncan Hutty]

In theory suse90->suse92 retaining only /home should not be a problem 
particularly if you stay with the same desktop environment (probably 
Gnome/KDE). I suggest that you examine /home carefully first. If you are 
upgrading to new versions of applications that record settings and/or 
configuration in /home (don't forget /home/\..*) I would want to 
consider carefully whether the new versions are able to use the old 
config files. The answer is you're probably ok, but if you feel 
particularly cautious, of if your settings woulod be arduous to 
recreate, then backup. Obviously, anything more than config files should 
be backed up, regardless. However, if you do not tell the new installer 
to modify /home, then it should be fine, the backup should only be for 
insurance.

If you do ls ~ -a for all users on the box, then you will see all those 
'dot files'.

For an ordinary desktop box, your partition scheme seems quite suitable.
There are various arguments for separating different parts of the 
filesystem in different partitions, but if this is an ordinary desktop 
box, it's probably unnecessary. Mostly, it's to do with preparing for 
highly available systems and protecting from potential DoS attacks that 
attempt to fill a /var or /tmp filesystem. If you feel that your 
partitioning requirements might be somewhat out of the ordinary, then 
feel free to google for 'partition scheme' or similar.

Duncan Hutty


Dileep Vangasseri wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I run a suse 9.0 on my sony pcg frv26 laptop. I am thinking of 
> upgrading the system to 9.2. At present I have the following 
> partitions in my laptop.
>  
> /home  10GB 
> /           8GB
> /swap    1024 MB (my RAM is 512MB)
> /boot     100MB
> I have a dual boot with windows XP. I was wondering if I can just 
> format  the / partition and install the suse 9.2, keeping my /home 
> intact. During installation of suse 9.0 I had seen that there are 
> options to make /var , /usr etc in separate partitions. Is there any 
> advantage of keeping these things in separate partitions?  What would 
> be an ideal partition table for linux installtion?
>  
> Thanking you,
>  
> With best regards,
> Dileep
>
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