Re: Preparing for Debian 13

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 03:16:53PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 06:56:11PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> > Concerning the points raised:
> 
> I still did not see any statement of which concrete problems or issues
> you did actually want to tackle. For example it is a waste of time
> people giving advice about the upgrade route if you have decided that
> you do wish to fix your partitioning by means of a full reinstall.
> 
> (I'm not telling you that you should fix your partitioning or that you
> should do a full reinstall. As you say, it's a matter of how much time
> you have available and what your goals are.)
> 

I found it easiest to just run the installer and say - use LVM, all files
in one partition.

that give you a boot partition and everything else in one partition.

It Just Works (for high values of Just Works). If you then add a second 
disk, you can extend the LVM disk.

> Moving to an advanced filesystem would bring more benefits that some
> people say they can no longer live without, but there is maybe a steeper
> learning curve and changes that touch many things like how you do
> backups for example.
> 

All best, as ever,

Andy
(amacater@debian.org)

> Thanks,
> Andy
>