[CentOS] Upgrading to CentOS-7 on a new partition

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Tue Oct 28 13:25:20 UTC 2014


Johnny Hughes wrote:

> I have run upgrades on several test VMs and they did upgrade, but I
> don't think I would upgrade anything in production in place.  And this
> is not just advise I would give for CentOS .. I would also not upgrade
> anything in place (Not Windows from XP to Win7 to Win8 .. not any
> version of Linux from one major version to another, etc.).  But thats
> just me ... I find it much smoother in the long run to reinstall and
> move data.


What about cloning a system to a new partition and then upgrading this?

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland





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