Best way to upgrade?

[chamber]

I recently moved /home onto a seperate partition and was wondering what the best way to go about upgrading would be?

This system was previously dual booting Vista and 9.04 however in a fit of frustration at Vista I wiped it's partition and used it as a storage space for my media files.

I now have;

Dell utility partition (~3GB)
Storage (210GB)
Unallocated (will eventually be installing windows 7 in at some point)(40GB)
Linux
/home (~25GB)
/ (20GB)
/swap (2GB)

I would like to upgrade as simply and painlessly as possibe, would the best way to do this be by upgrading from within the system or by installing a newer release from the live cd and telling it what partition to use?

[wojox]

Open your terminal and copy and paste this



sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

[chamber]

Thanks,

Know about that, was just wondering if that way would be the easiest way to keep all my settings etc intact or would it be better to do a fresh install but choose not to format my /home partition?

[wojox]

No it's good to have a separate partition.

[chamber]

Ok,

I do have a seperate /home partition, which I intend to keep.

The question was is it better to use

1. the sudo apt-get upgrade option

or

2. use the live cd and install, but select not to format the /home partition

Which of these 2 methods is going to be better for not messing up al of my settings.

[limestone]

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade

[wojox]

Ok,

I do have a seperate /home partition, which I intend to keep.

The question was is it better to use

1. the sudo apt-get upgrade option

or

2. use the live cd and install, but select not to format the /home partition

Which of these 2 methods is going to be better for not messing up al of my settings.

it's faster and quicker using the Command line. No don't use the CD.

[chamber]

So your recommendation would be to use the upgrade route then as opposed to the live cd?

The reason I am asking is that the last time that I used the upgrade route it was extremely annoying and took me an age to sort out again, this was however when I did not have a seperate partition for my home folder.