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upgrade or reinstall
Hi everyone,
My server at school is running RedHat 5.1. I posted some time ago that X
is no longer working (Yes, I know, I shouldn't be running X on a server
machine, but my tape backup and UPS both require X to make configuration
anything less than a complete hassle). Other than that, the server is
running fine. The only reboots I've had have come when something having
to do with nfs died and I couldn't mount anything off of the server. I
have a feeling a more experienced admin probably could have restarting
it properly and avoided the reboot.
I'd like to upgrade to RH5.2, but I'm wondering if I should do the
upgrade procedure or do a full reinstall (preserving /home and after
backing up /etc of course). I'm perfectly happy with the partition
scheme as currently implemented (see below).
[wilson@thales wilson]$ df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 77742 41549 32179 56% /
/dev/sda11 1686362 528322 1070889 33% /home
/dev/sda7 155517 399 147088 0% /tmp
/dev/sda8 1018298 391697 573990 41% /usr
/dev/sda9 746387 137078 570755 19%
/usr/local/windows
/dev/sda10 303251 83666 203924 29% /usr/src
/dev/sda6 202182 15411 176331 8% /var
What would you guys recommend? Am I likely to resurrect X by doing the
upgrade?
Thanks,
Tim
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