Do you know how much free space you have?<br>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.
<br><br>To find out how much space you have <br><br>$ df -H<br>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>/dev/sda1 11G 7.0G 3.1G 70% /<br>varrun 530M 254k 530M 1% /var/run
<br>varlock 530M 0 530M 0% /var/lock<br>udev 530M 70k 530M 1% /dev<br>devshm 530M 0 530M 0% /dev/shm<br>lrm 530M 37M 494M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-386/volatile
<br>/dev/sda2 21G 9.5G 11G 48% /home<br><br>When I set my system up I set up 3 partitions. /, /home, and swap.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 5:24 PM, Ryan Taylor <<a href="mailto:rztaylor@gmail.com">
rztaylor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><i><div class="Ih2E3d">>Gutsy won't<br>>automatically recognize and use your /home partition (unless you're
<br>>upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.<br><br></div>Sounds easy enough, but how do I do that ? <br><br>Thanks!<br><br>
<br></i><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 4:43 PM, David L. Willson <<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu" target="_blank">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Good idea, if you understand what you're doing. AFAIK, Gutsy won't<br>automatically recognize and use your /home partition (unless you're<br>upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.<br><br>If I was you, I would get a bigger stick and tar up my home-folder.
<br>Alternately, use 7zip or arj to make backup volumes that fit onto<br>whatever media you have available (stick, CDR, DVDR, or whatever). Then<br>TEST those backups and do a clean install and restore data as desired.<br>
It's not simple, but it's less complex than moving an existing system to<br>multiple partitions.<br><div><div></div><div><br>On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:25 -0700, Ryan Taylor wrote:<br>> I'm about to switch over to Gutsy (I'm embarrassed to say I'm still
<br>> running Edgy...), and I've decided to do a "clean" install (I've<br>> mucked around with more things than I should have over the previous<br>> months). However I have limited thumb-drive space to make easy to
<br>> reload my /home folder...<br>><br>> In my currently setup I have three partitions (swap, / , and a ntfs<br>> partition I've been using for music). Can I use GParted or something<br>> to go ahead and create a separate /home partition in Edgy, move (or
<br>> copy) my "home" files into it, and then go through the Gutsy CD<br>> install and it recognize and use my newly formed /home partition?<br>><br>> Bad or good idea??<br>><br>> I didn't see a good answer on the forums, so I though I'd turn to the
<br>> list...<br>><br>> thanks in advance,<br>> Ryan<br>><br>><br><br><br></div></div><div><div></div><div>--<br>Ubuntu-us-co mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">
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