you want to upgrade. seems to me the easiest, quickest, and most trustworthy way to proceed is reinstall. experience taught me long ago reinstalling is your friend, far easier than sorting out a confusing mess. also, many major upgrades haven't worked properly without reinstalling. sometimes raid formats have changed, sometimes the upgrade process just leaves a nonworking mess and you need to reinstall anyway. and while you're at it setup your discs so you have 2 complete and distinct installations simultaneously. that way the next time around you can install the next before/without overwriting what's working. it's easiest to use the installer to do your partitioning. i have 2 discs and build raid1 sets by setting the 2 discs up with identical partitions, on each disc i put two 300mb boot partitions, two 10gig swap partitions, and the rest of the space equally divided between two lvm partitions. the swap could be within the lvm, but there have been times i've been happy to have partitions i could play with without destroying either installation. if you want more swap later you can add additional swap from within the lvm. you can even change your mind later about having 2 sets and absorb the second lvm into the first. just like you can add more salt later but you can't take out what's already in the stew. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150903/b98549af/attachment.html>