Ubuntu Unleashed: Upgrade from Hardy Heron to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Upgrade from Hardy Heron to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Labels: Howto, Upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Posted by defcon on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 8:20 PM

Right now would be a great time to upgrade ubuntu, most of the bugs have been fixed in the previous release and their is plenty of new driver support.
Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '8.10' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

If you have a separate home partition and dont mind reinstalling the os, download the iso, reboot and install with jfs.

I have noticed a dramatic speed increase formatting the partition to jfs, jfs definately boots much faster and accesses files/programs quicker for me.

I got tired of ext3 a year ago, switched over to reiserfs, and that was super fast, jfs is even faster and way more stable.

Download the Intrepid Ibex beta iso from here

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hombrelobo · 859 weeks ago

Do you know how jfs performs in a SSD hard disk ?

I have an Acer One with an 8Gb SSD disk with Ubuntu that I installed on an ext2 non-journaling partition. But it is still too slow for many things.

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mezulig · 859 weeks ago

Some time ago i have problems with my partition / with jfs, so a decide use ext3 on the / and let stay the jfs on the logical partitions.

Good post, now i think to upgrade my ubuntu :)

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defcon 52p · 859 weeks ago

what problems? Ive had many data corruption issues with ext3, also ext3 is the slowest fs

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Baobab · 859 weeks ago

How do you choose to use JFS? Do you need to use the alternate CD?

@Mezulig: Which problems?

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likemindead · 859 weeks ago

Thanks for the advice. I was completely unaware of JFS. I look forward to trying it out.

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Fujiko Fujio · 859 weeks ago

I've known of JFS for some time now but never really gave it a try, recently I've had some problems with ReiserFS where I lost about 80gb of data (luckily I was able recover it). Gonna give it a try, planning on reinstalling one of my home pc.

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Nachoman · 859 weeks ago

It would also be a great time to hunt for bugs!

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VDIAS · 859 weeks ago

Is there any way on convert ext3 to jfs without format?
How can i create a new home partition? Right now i only have a swap partition and a main one... can i just create a new partition and move all my personal (home) files there?

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Jerad · 859 weeks ago

I use simple backup (sbackup) to back up all of my data every night to network attached storage. So I just formatted the drive JFS and then restored the backup. Simple enough, but took about 2 hours to copy the 150gb worth of personal laptop files...

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Slyther · 857 weeks ago

I have a separate home partition... so if i reinstall OS with the new release cd, as given in the post, will i still be able to use the programs that i installed on the /use drive? i dont have a separate usr partition...