With modern file systems and home hardware raid capabilities, there really
isn't a technical downside to simply going with a / partition. If you have
an SSD drive you can always go with / on the SSD and /home for all the
data. More than that is really kind of missing the points of LVM and the
raid capabilities inherent in the hardware.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>
>  Like I said, I don't think it's an unlimited skip, and some versions
>> might be better at it than others. I used do-release-upgrade -d, and it
>> worked for me. Might not have worked as well in previous versions.
>>
>
> That is sort of consistent with what happened with my 12.04.2 LTS going to
> 14.04.  It probably has something to do with it being LTS.  The other two
> were not LTS and they did not try to skip.
>
> Clearly, the man page for do-release-upgrade is not correct in stating
> that the -d option will "Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is
> possible."  It almost always checks only for the next release from 6 months
> after the installed release.
>
>
> Mike
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