On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 22:54 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
Also consider how much free space you need on / to perform a
"preupgrade". Hint: a lot.
I remember someone asking me on IRC why Mandriva bothers to split large
urpmi (yum equivalent) transactions into small groups. This is the
answer. :)
I really don't think automatically splitting /home is a good
idea. Any
heuristic is just that, heuristic. It's inevitably going to fail in some
cases.
Mandriva and SUSE (and possibly Debian? Not sure) have been doing it for
years and it really hasn't been hurting many (if any) people. I read
every post to the Mandriva forums for four years from 2004 to 2008, I
think there were maybe five or six people in all that time who filled
up / (and it was usually because something had actually broken and
started spewing zillions of bytes into log files or something, and in
that case, it'd fill up / eventually no matter how big it is...).
From doing some Googling, it seems Ubuntu have come up with an
alternative approach, which is for the installer not to wipe out /home
on an existing install...
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-May/004210.html
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