I am running Opensuse 15.0 dual booted with Win10 and I would like to upgrade to Opensuse 15.1. I have upgraded previously from 13.2 to 42.0 with references from Opensuse wiki, but on a different machine.
I would also like to move from LVM+Ext4 to BtrFS, along with the upgrade. I have looked online, but did not find much about a migration HowTO to BtrFS.
I also have additional repositories enabled (Nvidia/chrome/Hardware and a few more) which I would like to retain/use after the upgrade.
This is my regular workhorse machine and I cannot test the migration scenario on a VM mostly due to lack of info. Could you please point me to right direction ?
I would also like to move from LVM+Ext4 to BtrFS, along with the upgrade. I have looked online, but did not find much about a migration HowTO to BtrFS.
I also have additional repositories enabled (Nvidia/chrome/Hardware and a few more) which I would like to retain/use after the upgrade.
- What should be the best option in my scenario ? [upgrade from DVD or upgrade via zypper]
- Do I need to take any precaution so that my Win10 partition does not get corrupted ? Os-Prober and grub2-mkconfig has been consistent for me during "zypper up" so far. [I use win10 mostly for games anyway, but I would like not to do a complete rebuild]
- Any documentation for migrating from LVM-EXT4 to Btrfs ? [My Data is backed up to external HDD]
- I can disable the additional repositories before the upgrade. Is it recommended to switch to nouveau (which is currently blacklisted in modprobe) before the upgrade , or can nvidia module be retained with the upgrade ?
- I would like to retain the current kernel in case things go south during the upgrade. can a dd backup of my current root partition help in recovering my system in case things go wrong ?
This is my regular workhorse machine and I cannot test the migration scenario on a VM mostly due to lack of info. Could you please point me to right direction ?