[Mageia-discuss] How to mount NTFS partitions at boot?

Mon Jan 21 13:07:04 CET 2013

On 30/11/2012 13:11, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> On 29/11/12 19:01, TJ wrote:
+>> eading of head-scratching problems like this are the reason that,
+>> in nearly 11 years of using Linux, I never "upgrade" to a new
+>> release. I always do clean installs, with the exception of telling
+>> the installer to leave my /home partition alone. Believe me, I
+>> understand the desire to go the upgrade path, and I know the
+>> developers work very hard to make it possible, but the risk of
+>> problems is just too high for me. Clean installs have almost always
+>> worked for me first time, every time.
+> 
+> In my 10+ years of Linux I've gone the upgrade path 3 times - and each
+> time I've spent significant time trying to sort out the mess then
+> doing a clean install anyway.  From time to time people say "but it
+> works now" which is why I've been tempted to try it, but it's simply
+> not worth the effort.
+
+On Mandrake/Mandriva I have done way too many upgrades to even list.
+
+On my personal laptop, I know I have done:
+
+Mandriva 2009.0 install
+Mandriva 2009.0 -> Mandriva 2009.1 upgrade
+Mandriva 2009.1 -> Mandriva 2010.0 upgrade
+Mandriva 20101.0 -> Mageia 1 upgrade
+Mageia 1 upgrade -> Mageia 2 upgrade
+
+There is one minor unresolved issue on the Mageia 2 installation, which
+I will try and investigate further, but all other upgrades worked
+perfectly (e.g. Mandriva 2010.0 to Mageia 1 upgrade was flawless).
+
+I finally got a work laptop, and migrated my home directory from the
+above machine, and that worked fine. I have experienced more issues with
+normal systemd/dracut etc. issues that with any settings/prefs.
+
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+