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

[Ryan Taylor]

That's what I was hoping I could do... I give it a shot!

Thanks everyone.



On Dec 12, 2007 5:43 PM, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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