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Update to Ubuntu 9.10 from Ubuntu 9.04 [duplicate]

Update to Ubuntu 9.10 from Ubuntu 9.04 [duplicate]

What are the steps to follow to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 as seamless as possible?

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Guest [Entry]

Click the system Menu Go to Administration and Click on update manager there should be a button to click to upgrade to 9.10. I upgraded to the RC through this method and everything works as it should, be warned this process takes a bit of time to complete.
Guest [Entry]

"Go to System -> Administration -> Update Manager and just click ""Upgrade"". This should not cause you any troubles.

I haven't upgraded myself though, and I'll wait at least a month. Of course somebody will need to be the first, but if you're not in a hurry, and your current system runs fine, then you may just as well wait a bit. Unless there's something in the new release which you'd like to use, of course.

Note that a fresh installation of 9.10 allows you to use the ext4 file system. With an upgrade this is not possible of course. You can also convert ex3 to ex4 in place, but this is more of a hassle. There is a bug report about
corruption of large files when using ext4 though, so anyone doing a fresh install I'd recommend to not use the default ext4, but instead stick with ext3, one more time."