Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: Back on Track / Beta
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Tue Jan 07, 2025 06:46

Subject: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
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Subject: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
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-=> nelgin wrote to All <=-

 ne> I have a bunch of servers that I just updated to RHEL 8 from RHEL
 ne> between 5-7 last year. I'm desperately trying to put the customer from
 ne> moving to RHEL 9 right now. When these systems were built out the /boot
 ne> file system wasn't sized well and nope. it's a disk partition not LVM
 ne> so I can't even extend it. I'm going to have a do a bunch of manual
 ne> jiggery with all these servers and not looking foward to it. If I can
 ne> wait a couple of years, I might be able to offload it to someone else
 ne> in the meantime.


I was that guy who got the can kicked down the road. Recently had to
upgrade 50+ servers fromUbuntu 14.04, with tiny /boot partitions.
Thought it would be easier to do incremental upgrades and keep the
configs, in retrospect I should have created new VMs and blown the old
ones away...   :(



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