On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:53 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Disks are cheap, so I'm buying a new disk for my server, copying all my > existing partitions to it (actually, I'll use dump and restore, which also > lets me do a "fire drill" on my backups). I'll then pull out the original > drive, boot from the new drive, and upgrade that. If anything bad happens, > I'll have the old drive to fall back to. Once the upgrade is done, I'll > mount the old disk read-only and diff the parts of the two systems that > I've customized (eg. /etc, /var, and /home) and figure out what > customizations failed to get migrated. I can also query the old RPM > database if needed to see where I got 3rd party packages. (I tend to stay > on the bleeding edge for things like SpamAssassin, getting the RPM from > upstream.) Do dump and restore correctly handle SLlinux file contexts these days? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
