On Friday 21 May 2021 02:41:32 pm dep via tde-users wrote:
said J Leslie Turriff:
I DO
| understand that the team is small and the tasks large, but having the
| same problem pop up after each upgrade, with the same group of
| incoherent 'just do this and all will be well (until next time)' is
| extremely frustrating.
<slight rant> when i was doing the previously mentioned swap from a failing
MBR drive to a larger GPT drive, i thought there would be documentation --
instructions -- as to how it can be done. searched and searched. found
people crowing how they had done it with dual boot, or with an lvm setup,
all mine's-bigger-than-yours stuff, but no simple instructions on how to
make the swap without losing data. as a result, what should have taken
half a day took almost three. annoying as all get out. then again, the
reason i didn't want to do a new install was all the tweaks and fiddling
i'd done over the years without bothering to document any of it, so . . .
</slight rant>
Hi dep,
S'Okay, probably the easiest method is to place /home on a separate partition
and then do a 'clean' install while preserving /home. Here’s some (crappy)
docs I did on the process.
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=59308&p=587358#p5886…
Best,
Michael