On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 04:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Apologies if you've already considered this, but I wonder why you
> don't
> just do a fresh install of F38 (or F37). It would have been much
> quicker than all the futzing around you've had to do, and you could
> have seized the opportunity to expand the /boot partition to 1GB.
>
> My system is probably about as old as yours, and I did this a year
> or
> two ago when BTRFS became the default filesystem (though I was
> already
> using it for /home). Haven't regretted it since.
My sentiments, exactly. Upgrades in place were a pain when I did
them
donkey's years ago, and I repeatedly see threads like this on this
list
(despite someone else's thoughts that they don't).
Sure, if things go fine there's an ease of doing nothing more than an
update. But when things go haywire, and they often do (immediately
or
later on), there's an awful lot of housekeeping to go through.
And, there's more than just updating files with newer versions.
Their
can be filesystem changes, different partitioning schemes, etc. Some
of which are very difficult to manage in an update over the top.
Just to clarify: I almost always do an upgrade. The reinstall I mention
was probably the first one I'd done in over 5 years at the time. I
don't normally have any problems, but little by little a lot of cruft
tends to accumulate so once in a while it's good to house-clean.
poc