On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Apologies if you've already considered this, but I wonder why you
don't
just do a fresh install of F38 (or F37). It would have been much
quicker than all the futzing around you've had to do, and you could
have seized the opportunity to expand the /boot partition to 1GB.
My system is probably about as old as yours, and I did this a year or
two ago when BTRFS became the default filesystem (though I was already
using it for /home). Haven't regretted it since.
My sentiments, exactly. Upgrades in place were a pain when I did them
donkey's years ago, and I repeatedly see threads like this on this list
(despite someone else's thoughts that they don't).
Sure, if things go fine there's an ease of doing nothing more than an
update. But when things go haywire, and they often do (immediately or
later on), there's an awful lot of housekeeping to go through.
And, there's more than just updating files with newer versions. Their
can be filesystem changes, different partitioning schemes, etc. Some
of which are very difficult to manage in an update over the top.
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