Kubuntu upgrade install

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> Having /home on a separate partition has its benefits, but has its
> drawbacks also.  The old wisdom used to provide for many partitions:
> /home, /usr/local /tmp /boot /swap and so on.  The problems I have had
> with this fall into two categories.
> 
> Unless disk space is practically unlimited, you have to accurately
> predict the size requirements of the partitions. 

Not a problem - that's what LVM is for.

My _physical_ partitions are an (obsolete) Windows partition - now converted
to Reiser - my root partition, my swap and an LVM.  I should, in fact, be
able to turn the old Windows partition into another LVM, and then use the
two LVMs seemlessly.

You _can_ put root on an LVM, but it just seems too scary to me...

> Program settings in a home directory are often incompatible with the
> updated versions of the programs in the new distro.

For individual programs, you just move the config files.  I haven't often
found it an issue.  Of course, I've been a dedicated Debian-based distro
user since I first got into Linux, so there's probably never been a huge
difference in configurations.  I've tried other distros but I always come
back to one or another offshoot of Debian before I see a need to merge my
existing /home to the other distro.
-- 
derek