What FS after a dup from 13.1 to 13.2 ?

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#1

Hello :wink:

What file system (FS) will i have if i zypper dup from openSUSE 13.1 to 13.2 ?
I’m actually using ext4. Will i end up with Btrfs and xfs or will i stay with ext4 ?

thanks :wink:


cat /etc/fstab


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600PD-07FZB1_WD-WMAES3562221-part1        swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600PD-07FZB1_WD-WMAES3562221-part2        /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600PD-07FZB1_WD-WMAES3562221-part3        /home                ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF5PH60-part1                       /stockage1           ext4       defaults              1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF5PH60-part2                       /osvirtuels          ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103UJ_S13PJ90S208022-part1             /stockage2           ext4       defaults              1 2


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160021A_5JS3TMX2-part1                        /stockage3           ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2


proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
#2

Since you’re not using an installer, your partitioning will be unchanged.

#3

So what does the dup process does exactly ? Does it only updates the packages found in my config to the versions of the 13.2 urls ? (oss, non oss, update)
I thought it could have changed my FS to Btrfs too.

edit : By partitioning : do you mean the size of partition like root(/) etc … ( as i saw root (/) should be increased due to Btrfs) , or that nothing in partitioning will be changed (same size and FS) ?

#4

Yes, it will not change partition sizes or file systems. It is only upgrading packages in a strategic way.

#5

Cool, thank you :wink:

#6

Hi,
i’m now using openSUSE 13.2, after a zypper dup from 13.1, thus i’m still using ext4.

Is snapper still usefull ? (man says that snapper is able to use ext4 but i have increased my root partition size).
Will it create snapshots automatically ?
How do i turn off snapper properly ?

Thanks :wink:

#7

AFAIK snapper for ext4 is not yet available in stable form. I’m sure you can find an alpha to try.

Personally I see little use for most desktop users. Developer yes maybe commercial operations maybe. Maybe if the frequency of snaps was turned down a great deal and number saved. I believe the default is 1 per hour and 100 saves. Way to high for a Desktop user. Once a day and 10 images is way plenty for most peoples usage. Also droping back to a previous state is not as simple as you might condider since there are depndencies that a general user would not be aware. You can’t in general just turn back one system file. There may be configs or other system files that would not take kindly to a rollback of say just the gcc libraries.