Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

[Efraim Flashner]

I don't believe it is possible for a user to create a partition.  Of
course that is more of a brain-fart on my part, because it's not so
useful to your situation.  Gparted should be able to resize unmounted
ext3/4 partitions, and from there you can create a new partition, copy
your /home directory there and edit /etc/fstab to point to the new
partition.

I found these release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes, but it looks rather short, and doesn't mention django.  Fortunately django has its own release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/ which should help with the upgrade.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, I've never used django.

-Efraim


On Thu, 15 May 2014 16:00:00 +0300
Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:

> Thank you, it's a good idea. At work my home directory is not in a
> separate partition so it's not kept if I reinstall Ubuntu. Do you
> know how I can create a partition and move it to a separate partition?
> 
> Uri Even-Chen
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> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi people,
> >>
> >> I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12
> >> locally with Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade
> >> Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and I also thought it would be a good idea
> >> to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe even 3, so I tried to upgrade
> >> Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the upgrade, Django didn't
> >> work and I couldn't even run migrations (with South). I had to
> >> reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in my home
> >> directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
> >> files that I backed up. My questions are:
> >>
> >> 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu
> >> 14.04? 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after
> >> upgrading to 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home
> >> directory, while not keeping all the other files (the operating
> >> system files)?
> >>
> > Why do you think it is not possible?  I do it all the time.
> > I  keep my home directory in a separate partition so when I upgrade
> > (or downgrade) the OS the home directory stays the same.
> >
> > --
> > Ori Idan
> >
> >



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