Question about partion in Ubuntu

[Bo Grimes]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:05:49PM -0800, Scott Wang wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have two hard drivers, each one is 160 GB. One thing I can do is make home
> directory in one disk and all the other directories into the other disk.
> 
> The problem of this is it is pretty waste. Installing Ubuntu may never needs
> 160GB spaces. However, home directory can easily exceed 160GB.
> 
> Is there anyway, I can make home directory, say 280GB, and leave 40GB for
> the system?

Unless you create a RAID, I think you'll have to reply on a solution like
LVM (logical volume manager).  While you wait for a more competent,
experienced person to answer you might want to read:

http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-over-lvm-filesystem

But it's a year old, so there may be better intergrated tools.