Test upgrade from F13 to F14 using LVM snapshot?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 19:27:39 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The exception would be the /boot
>> partition, but it should be possible to keep my old kernels, yes?
>
> I haven't tried this, but if everything else works, you ought to be
> able to make an image of /boot using dd.  (/boot being a relatively
> small partition.)

Yeah. I keep a 1GB /boot because of pre-upgrade and I also keep
Memtest86, MHDD, and SystemRescue CD images in /boot with grub
entries. I may try using dump/restore instead of 'dd' just to get some
experience with it.

Richard


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