Hardy Upgrade

I found sometime to upgrade to Hardy on my home laptop yesterday. I had two different partitions of 4GB each running two versions of Ubuntu and I wanted to do away with it since, over a period of time I run out of space on the root partition. So I moved /home to the end of the disk, deleted all other partitions and created a 7GB one for root. The whole process took almost 4 hours thanks to 250MB odd updates.

Steps done after upgrading to Hardy:

• Fix /home partition.
  

  rm -rf /home/balajin
  
  sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda5
  
  deb73237-6b76-4bb3-ab1a-cf335e034315
  
  
  Add to /etc/fstab
  
  # /dev/sda5
  
  UUID=deb73237-6b76-4bb3-ab1a-cf335e034315 /home  reiserfs  defaults  0  1



• Add user narayanant and add to corresponding groups.


• Run Update manager to sync with latest packages


• Install courier-imap, fetchmail, procmail, msmtp, postfix.


• Restore configurations for postfix, courier-imap and crontab.


• Install vlc, mplayer, mozilla-mplayer, codecs, vim, emacs, thunderbird, xchat