Question about partion in Ubuntu

[Michael]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:05 -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?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Wang
> im at scottwang.net

If you're up to it, you can try LVM. You'd need to create an lvm group
for /home/ and then one for everything else. There's a how-to on the
ubuntu wiki pages on doing it with secondary hard drives. Use the
alternate install CD if you're doing a clean install.

-Mike