David Wright composed on 2019-01-04 19:21 (UTC-0600): > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>> Felix Miata wrote: >>> Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2019-01-04 12:57 (UTC-0500): >>>> I haven't messed around with partitioning since the early days of >>>> Slackware, and that was with a great deal of trepidation? >>> You just multiplied my curiosity about what exactly was responsible for >>> your current partitioning >>> scheme, not to mention what will be used for your planned reinstallation. >> The installer for Debian Stretch has an new option thzt thought I'd >> try.: separate /home, /var and/temp partitions. You did that for this Jessie to Stretch upgrade? That sounds like "messing around with partitioning" to me. > Ignoring /home as it dwarfs / in size, it would be very easy to make a > mistake if you take an existing installation and hive off the /tmp and > /var into separate partitions. The problem boils down to leaving the > existing /var contents (in the root filesystem) in place when you > mount the new var partition onto /var, thereby making those files > inaccessible. +1 So, boot rescue media, mount sda1, and check the contents of <mntdir>/var/. Its apt cache might be loaded, thus you might not any more have reason to reinstall - just delete everything in it and reboot. If something goes wrong, you planned on reinstalling anyway. :-) > I would advise you to keep your separate /home partition. Except for > dot files/directories, they're independent of the OS. It makes > reinstallation and upgrades a lot easier. +1 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
