Re: [tlug] Current practices for Linux partioning?

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:56:26AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 14:40, Christian Horn <chorn@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > For Debian upgrading to new major releases always worked for me, for
> > all other distros I do not trust upgrade recipes.
> >
> > As a result my systems have 4 or 5 partitions of each 12GB.  Those
> > carry own distros/major versions, independently.
> > One of these carries the encrypted /home which gets mounted from the
> > distros.
> >
> > To select which distro/version to boot I have one of the distros
> > maintain the MBR, the others have grub installed in their partition
> > and the MBR can start them using 'chainloader ..'.
> >
> > Ofcourse, this style is probably not useful to the default desktop
> > user.  Yet nice to just install Fedora alphas in parallel to existing
> > systems without much worry about breaking things.
> >
> I really don't get the distros/version/releases thing and having
> "many" different things at the same time, unless you are testing
> hardware performance or something (if it is software testing otherwise
> use virtual machines).

I am 
- testing functions that are still hard to virtualize, i.e. KVM vir-
tualization itself which just now comes into state of beeing stackable
- not going into hassle of upgrading, instead installing the new re-
lease in parallel and thus can go back painlessly


> If you switch to Gentoo, you will stop bothering with releases and
> upgrades; you'll have updates.

Not far away from Debian in that regard.

Christian