Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

[Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 04/21/2022 08:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:21 AM Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> > I am not upgrading in place.
> >
> > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a
> > different partition.
> >
> > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on
> > its current partition.
> >
> > I'm aware of cautions about upgrading in-place  cf
> > [
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> > ]
> >
> > Are there things to be aware of when using the same /home partition on
> > both?
>
> My approach to this is to create (and use) a separate Partition, which I
> call /bighome.  When I create users (I use several, based on Function), I
> separately create a Directory on /bighome, and change its ownership to the
> User.
>
> Each Partition has its own /home, but mainly for the .dot files.  Anything
> that is likely to be long term is on /bighome.
>
> This /bighome has survived from Squeeze to Bookworm, as well as a number of
> Ubuntu releases.

Sounds interesting. Do you have multiple versions of Debian installed at 
the same time or have you upgraded a single copy of Debian several times?


> Hope this helps.
>
> Kenneth Parker