Another question

[Knapp]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Thomas<valhalla2100 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Forgot to include a question.
>
> How can I set up the rest of a hard disk for Ubuntu?
>
> I am only using 50 GB of my 500 GB drive.  Could not figure
> out what to do.
>
> I am planning to reinstall the 2nd hard disk and assume that
> the same solution would work for both.
>
> Thanks
>
> Thomas

Likely you need to use a live disk and make a partition for it. Then
mount that partition. You might want to call it /home, if you have not
already used that. It might also be easier to start from scratch as a
newbie and just reinstall everything including repartitioning the hard
drive, now that you know what you are doing. It would be the path of
the least headaches and learning but if you have already customized so
much that you don't want to do it, no worries, it can be done.

I set mine up like this
Logical partition and then
Swap  8GB (I find I need this for huge pictures with Gimp and
Blender3d. it seems to keep things more stable)
I have 2 drives that have 4GB of swap on each and then I balance the
calling of them.
Root "/" 20gb (I use 18 and have all but the kitchen sink installed.
The only reason I can think that you might need more is if you have a
lot of websites that you server)
Home "/home" all the rest of the space
Optionally you could add a partition for encryption, if that floats your boat.
I also often leave another 100 GBs for doing duel boots of other linux
types but have recently started to use virtual machines instead.

I also saw that you have not asked about backing up your data!!!!!!
Do it or you will one day wish you had!!!!
DvDisaster in a great tool for data back up. I also upload all my
pictures to Picasa for safe keeping (I keep them local too).

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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