On 8/28/24 10:13, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:23:52 -0400
jbk<[email protected]> wrote:
I guess I'm lazy in that regard. There is Ansible that RH
advocates in doing just this as you describe. On all my
I'm very much an Ansible advocate but it's too much for this specific
purpose: more time spent crafting and testing Ansible plays than its
worth vis-a-vis how infrequently I actually need it.
machines I have two root partitions. When it comes time to
upgrade to the next distro version I format the other
parition and then rsync the current system to the other then
modify this in similar fashion as described in my initial
[snip]
This sounds like a job for filesystem snapshots.
"This sounds like a job for filesystem snapshots."
Could be, but you still have to edit the installed copy for
UUID's, IP addresses and hostname. And, doing the snapshot
probably takes the same amount of time as what I did to copy
the files directly to disk. The advantage to my method is
that I have at least one working OS if not two when I'm
done. Disk realestate is cheap and dual booting at least
with the ext4 file system is reliable.
--
Jim KR
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