[CoLoCo] partitioning (after the fact...)

[Chomafin]

Do you know how much free space you have?
You could use gpartd to partition the current avil space into mutiple
drives.  Then cp you home to the new partition, and when you go to reinstal
everything, just tell the installer to mount the new partition as /home.  I
think you'll have to fix permisions on all the folders within, but that
should be as easy as doing a chown user:group /home/xxx.

To find out how much space you have

$ df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1               11G   7.0G   3.1G  70% /
varrun                 530M   254k   530M   1% /var/run
varlock                530M      0   530M   0% /var/lock
udev                   530M    70k   530M   1% /dev
devshm                 530M      0   530M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                    530M    37M   494M   7%
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-386/volatile
/dev/sda2               21G   9.5G    11G  48% /home

When I set my system up I set up 3 partitions.  /, /home, and swap.

On Dec 12, 2007 5:24 PM, Ryan Taylor <rztaylor at gmail.com> wrote:

> *>Gutsy won't
> >automatically recognize and use your /home partition (unless you're
> >upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.
>
> Sounds easy enough, but how do I do that ?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> *
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 4:43 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>
> > Good idea, if you understand what you're doing.  AFAIK, Gutsy won't
> > automatically recognize and use your /home partition (unless you're
> > upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.
> >
> > If I was you, I would get a bigger stick and tar up my home-folder.
> > Alternately, use 7zip or arj to make backup volumes that fit onto
> > whatever media you have available (stick, CDR, DVDR, or whatever).  Then
> > TEST those backups and do a clean install and restore data as desired.
> > It's not simple, but it's less complex than moving an existing system to
> > multiple partitions.
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:25 -0700, Ryan Taylor wrote:
> > > I'm about to switch over to Gutsy (I'm embarrassed to say I'm still
> > > running Edgy...), and I've decided to do a "clean" install (I've
> > > mucked around with more things than I should have over the previous
> > > months).  However I have limited thumb-drive space to make easy to
> > > reload my /home folder...
> > >
> > > In my currently setup I have three partitions (swap, / , and a ntfs
> > > partition I've been using for music).  Can I use GParted or something
> > > to go ahead and create a separate /home partition in Edgy, move (or
> > > copy) my "home" files into it, and then go through the Gutsy CD
> > > install and it recognize and use my newly formed /home partition?
> > >
> > > Bad or good idea??
> > >
> > > I didn't see a good answer on the forums, so I though I'd turn to the
> > > list...
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > > Ryan
> > >
> > >
> >
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