Upgrade advice

[birger]

Since i have been running on btrfs for some time now i have the option to install to a fresh root subvolume, while reusing the existing swap and home. When i am certain i have everything set up i can delete the old root subvolume. No repartitioning needed.

2. nov. 2015 1.13 p.m. skrev Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>:
>
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system
> > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications
> > that are being used.
>
> Packages don't touch /home, so all that would be needed is to keep /home.
> Or backup your user's files and restore them after an upgrade or after a
> fresh installation.
>
> As jumping from F16 to F22 could result in lots of surprises (and
> upgrading from F16 to F17 to F18 ... to F22 would be tiresome), I would
> always prefer a fresh installation, especially if you want to rethink your
> partitioning. It would also be an opportunity to recreate the list of packages
> you want to add to the default installation afterwards.
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