On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I keep thinking that maybe I should reinstall just to get rid of random cruft, but can never be bothered to do it.
I always reinstall for that very reason. Plus I've worked out a great way to do it: Install a virtual machine, guestmount it, then rsync the disk image to the real partition I'm going to run on. Edit a few files like grub.cfg and fstab, and you can boot into it with a grub entry that uses the configfile directive, then install grub for real. No need to have your system down while installing :-).
Presumably the real partition you're going to run on is different from the one you are currently running on, so are you flipping between two partitions on each new install (in the manner of recent versions of Android) or is this something else?
poc