Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[Amichai Rotman]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 14:01, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.
>

I don't know how it filled up that much - I tend to try different apps and I
don't always  get to remove them. Acording to Synaptic, I have 25557
paqckages 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.
>

I wasn't planning to remove the Gnome desktop - just leave it and set KDE as
default. on second thought, it seems like a dumb idea. i guess I'll use the
Kubuntu 8.04.1 ISO I have.


> > 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!


I have a spair disk and the adaptor, but I am not sure what's the best way
to make sure my $HOME got mirrored entirely. I found 'mirrordir' in the
repo's, so I thought I'd give it a try.


>
> 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!


It does seem I'll be there tomorow (yes I am the one and the same Amichai
(Pingu) from the Technion's SSDL!

I will be happy to meet you there. regardless of the HDD - we have other
issues pending - but that's a story for another mailing list  or PM... ;-)


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