Re: what partitions to mount during upgrade ?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 19 Jun 2017 at 10:44:23 +0000, Blair, Charles E III wrote:

>    I am an unsophisticated user who has finally gotten
> around to upgrading a desktop from wheezy to jessie.  I am
> trying to follow the instructions in the "release notes,"
> but don't really know what I'm doing.
> 
>    My current question is to clarify the instructions about
> mounting partitions at the beginning of section 4.4.  I
> think I am supposed to issue as superuser the commands
> 
> mount -o remount,rw /
> mount -o remount,rw /usr
> 
> Are there any other mount commands to issue before
> apt-get upgrade ?  How do I find out?  I don't think
> it matters, but this is a dual-boot using grub with
> windows as the other system.

Issue the command 'mount' as a user. For / I get

  /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)

so the beginning of section 4.4 would not apply to any upgrade I did.