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* When you want to delete a package (usually, to reinstall because of yum screw-ups) without touching any dependencies: | * When you want to delete a package (usually, to reinstall because of yum screw-ups) without touching any dependencies: | ||
''%%rpm -e --justdb --nodeps packagename%%'' | ''%%rpm -e --justdb --nodeps packagename%%'' | ||
+ | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading / Backing up Multi-Partition Hosts ===== | ||
+ | Use live USB stick to boot so system is quiescent, then use parted to visualise structure | ||
+ | <code> | ||
+ | select /dev/sdx | ||
+ | |||
+ | </code> | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | <code> | ||
+ | dd if=/dev/sda9 of=/dev/sdx4 bs=128M | ||
+ | watch -n 10 killall -USR1 dd | ||
+ | </code> | ||
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===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Hosts ===== | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Hosts ===== | ||
Uninstall virtualbox before upgrade. Upgrade, then reinstall virtualbox (or you could try using the yum repo for virtualbox provided by rpmfusion, but so far I've found it too painful - too many glitches with the rpms - and directly installing rpms from www.virtualbox.org much easier). | Uninstall virtualbox before upgrade. Upgrade, then reinstall virtualbox (or you could try using the yum repo for virtualbox provided by rpmfusion, but so far I've found it too painful - too many glitches with the rpms - and directly installing rpms from www.virtualbox.org much easier). | ||
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===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Guests ===== | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Guests ===== | ||
Guest additions may fail badly in the updated guests (may only be able | Guest additions may fail badly in the updated guests (may only be able |