Fresh Install instead of an Upgrade What are my steps?

BT6600 · Jul 29th 2024

I am on version 4.1. I tried an in place upgrade but it failed. I have decided to just do a complete reinstall since I am this far behind but I have questions.

1. the install media will wipe the current OS disk completely during installation?

2. Should I unmount my drives on 4.1 before I start the installation process? I have several NTFS Raid 1 Disk pairs. I assume I should unmount those first. During the reinstall process I intend to only have the OS drive plugged in, do the install, then start plugging in the other drives and adding them to the 7.x system.

Thanks

gderf · Jul 29th 2024

1. Yes.

2. Shouldn't be a problem leaving the disks connected or not. But if you do leave them connected make sure you are installing OMV to the correct disk.

You'll probably get comments from others about your use case with NTFS drives on OMV.

raulfg3 · Jul 29th 2024

yes, use NTFS disk on debian is only recomended to facilitate copy of data to other data disk first/one time.

NTFS is not POSIX filesystem and you only have problems sharing data or using this data on dockers. so please consider to use EXt4 or other well supported Filesystem on debian.

BT6600 · Jul 29th 2024

Quote from raulfg3

yes, use NTFS disk on debian is only recomended to facilitate copy of data to other data disk first/one time.

NTFS is not POSIX filesystem and you only have problems sharing data or using this data on dockers. so please consider to use EXt4 or other well supported Filesystem on debian.

Yep will plan a switch after upgrade I just use NTFS when I installed because that was all I knew at the time.

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