Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[Amichai Rotman]

Hello all,

I want to re-install my Kubuntu box. I am currently running Kubuntu Hardy
(8.04.2).

I have an 80GB HDD partitioned as follows:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use%   Mounted on

/dev/sda1              38G   11G   25G  31%    /
/dev/sda3              38G   34G  2.2G  95%    /home

As you can see, too much disk space gets wasted on the root (/) partition.

My idea was to do the following, and I'd like your input / ideas or even a
pointer to a relevant guide/ HOWTO:

I'd like to re-partition the drive to make more room for my $HOME, so I
thought I'd give the root (/) about 20 GB and the rest for my $HOME.
Then, I thought I'd install from a regular Ubuntu (Gnome desktop by default)
and then install the 'kubuntu-desktop' package. I do not like the Gnome
desktop (freedom of choice, and all that, you know...). I thought doing it
this way because I felt the Kubuntu ISO is not quite stable, out of the
box....

Also, I'd like to hear from any of you that may have tried to re-size a
partition on a live system... I wouldn't do it, but maybe someone tried it
as part of a test on a test machine.

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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