Re: How to get away with small /var partition
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:17:08AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote
> You clearly haven't grasped the philosophy of Debian. The above
> paragraph betrays a gross misunderstanding on your part.
>
> You *don't* "wipe and reinstall" to do a Debian upgrade. You run:
>
> # apt-get update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> ...and your packages are updated in place.
>
> No reboot necessary, with the exception of kernel updates, and IIRC a
> recommended restart (single-user was sufficient) for a really hairy libc
> update.
It looks like I'm going to have to do a lot of un-learning of Redhat
in addition to learning Debian<g>. Reminds me of The Firesign Theatre
comedy album... "Everything You Know is Wrong".
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