Upgrade advice

[Jeffrey Ross]

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <jeff at bubble.org> 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.
>
> The recommendation is to go through successive upgrades one after the
> other. However, I am very doubtful that one of these will not break. I
> seem to recall that F18 or F19 was the one which broke upgrades (I think
> it was F19).

I'm aware of the recommendation to go through successive releases, the
problem is I can't even get to Fedora 17 because / and /usr are split into
two different file systems.

>
>> Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two
>> things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup or the yum
>> upgrade.
>>
>> The first stumbling block is that system was installed with separate
>> partitions for /, /boot, /var, & /usr and I think that the separation of
>> / and /usr is my biggest issue.
>
> I don't see why this should be an issue in a clean install. Are you
> wanting to keep /usr because you installed programs here? You may consider
> moving files that you created to a separate directory inside your home
> partition and then pushing it back. One possibility is to partition the
> current /usr and then move the programs to that new partition and keep
> that one in a new install.
>

I would rather avoid a clean install if at all possible, of course I may
not have a choice if I want to upgrade.

The current recommendation (requirement?) is that / and /usr be the same
partition, I'm pretty sure the problem with /usr being its own partition
is the location of /usr/sbin and /usr/bin both of which aren't mounted
when the upgrade is attempted.

I came from the real old school where everything had its own partition,
today this isn't the best way to do things and now I have a "broken"
system when it comes to upgrading.

>> The second issue is the system is setup with RAID1 on all partitions with
>> the bootloader (Grub ?) installed on both disks in the event of a disk
failure.
>
> I am not sure how RAID0 figures into this equation: I have not much
> knowledge of this, sorry.

I think there were some issues with using RAID on the boot partition but
I'm not positive.