Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[Dotan Cohen]

> 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.

Amichai, even 15 GB will more than enough. How did you get to 11 GB?!?
Are you storing a VM on the / partition? Even with my 500 GB drive on
the home system, / is in a 12 GB partition and in the four years that
I've been using that size I have never come close to filling it. Well,
once, but that was because of a rapidly filling log file and even 100
GB would have been filled quickly! And there is quite a bit of
software installed.

> 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....
>

Since 7.04 I have been using the Kubuntu disk instead of the Ubuntu
disk + KDE. It's fine now, in fact, it is better because the admin is
done with KDE tools and I don't have to go guessing what the Gnome
equivalents are.

> 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.
>

I can loan to you a 40 GB hard drive and a UDB-IDE adaptor to put your
data on. With that you can format the whole thing and repartition as
part of the install. You might want to wait another month and do that
with Kubuntu 9.04 as it comes with KDE 4.2[.1 I think] and even the
current Alpha is wholly usable. I am excited about that release!

My number is 0547881700 you can call after מוצא שבת to arrange for me
to bring the disk to the Technion tomorrow. Of course, this is
assuming that you are the same Amichai from the Technion!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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