Initial partitioning of hard disk for Breezy

[Merv Curley]

On Friday 07 October 2005 13:21, Tim Penhey wrote:
> Hi have Kubuntu running on Hoary right now, but when I did my
> initial formatting I have just the root dir.
>
> /etc/fstab looks like this:
>
> tim at spike:~$ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump> 
> <pass> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0   
>    0 /dev/hda6       /               reiserfs notail          0    
>   1 /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0      
> 0 /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0    
>   0 /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0  
>     0 /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0    
>   0
>
> Now that I am looking to upgrade to Breezy I am wondering if I
> screwed up at the start.  I am starting to see the benefits of
> having home on a separate partition.
>

I assume that hda5 and 6 are at the end of the partition table.  If 
not and there is at least 3 gig's free, you can create a new 
partition - hda7.  Perhaps a new hard drive, hdb would be in the 
budget?

> I do still have a 40 gig partition that holds Windows XP that I
> haven't booted into for six months so maybe it is time for that to
> go.
>
I don't know the current state of the Linux replacement for 
PartitionMagic but we didn't use to be able to change any partition 
sizes ahead of those in use.   So you would have to use all the hda1 
- 40 megs for Breezy, quite a waste.  If you can save your Home 
directory to removeable media  [ Zip, USB drive etc ]  and your main 
config files in /etc,  then just repartition the drive into 3 primary 
and an extended and whatever logicals that there are room for.                        
> Thanks,
>              

> If I do a clean install of Breezy, what would you suggest for
> partitions?
>
I'll leave this til we hear back from you about the size and state of 
hda.  

> Next question:
>
> If I do a clean install of Breezy into the current XP space, how
> can I keep all my emails... currently using Kontact.
>

As long as your user ID is the same number,  then just copy the Hoary 
files back to your home directory, especially /.kde.  Copy them to 
Suse10,  Mandriva or whatever else you try out in the future.  This 
doesn't always work when KDE does a mojor revision but no problem 
Hoary to Breezy.

Merv  

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Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont.Can

Linux    Kubuntu 5.0.4
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