root partition move

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:43:16PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Here's one of my uses.
> 
> I normally upgrade to a new version of a Linux distro by doing a clean
> install, with the new and old installations sharing /home and swap but
> each having their own /.  This is what I've done for roughly a decade.
> 
> At least these days, the cost of the disk space for / is tiny.
> 
> You, on the other hand, trust apt-get to do version upgrades.

Well not quite, but I do trust me to be able to put the pieces back
together if apt-get fails.

I wonder if btrfs snapshots would be a neat way to try out upgrades.

The other neat method to do test updates would be using a ram unionfs.
There was a presentation at the linux symposium this year from someone
doing exactly that.

See here:
http://rtr.ca/run_from_ram/

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