Another Newbie problem

[bill purvis]

On Saturday 27 October 2007, Kim Briggs wrote:
> On 10/26/07, bill purvis <bil at beeb.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm beginning to think I've gone seriously wrong switching
> > to Ubuntu.
> > ...
>
> If you like Ubuntu and want to stick with it, I'd suggest, in all
> seriousness, you do a fresh install and repartition your drive so that
> you have enough room to add who-knows-what in the future.  If unsure,
> just use one partition for everything.
>
Just grousing a bit. I have had some experience of partitioning and
made what I considered to be reasonable estimates. I didn't want to
wipe my Mandrake installation in case there's something that I forgot
to take note of - indeed I've already had to look at it for details
a couple of times.
I intended to create a separate /var partition, but after creating
/ and /usr, the partitioning program refused to let me create any
further partitions. I've tried using fdisk now that it's complete
but that seems to think that I've used all the space, despite the
number of cylinders reported being much more than those used.

I may just copy the old root,var, and usr partitions over to my
server and then do a reformat. I'd like to sort a few more problems
first, though.

Bill


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