Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[Amichai Rotman]

Thank you all.

I will rsync my files to an external drive, then delete all the partitions
on the main original drive and re-partition. I still think a 20GB / (root)
partition is reasonable.


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Amichai Rotman

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On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 22:18, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:

> Amichai Rotman wrote:
> >      >
> >      > 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?!?
>
> kdirstat will show you where your / space is wasted. I would use it,
> since Dotan is correct, 20GB for / ssems indeed a bit oversized to me,
> at least. Surely when you are operating servers that store data
> somewhere beneath /, this is a different story.
>
> >I thought
> >     doing it
> >      > this way because I felt the Kubuntu ISO is not quite stable, out
> >     of the
> >      > box....
>
> sorry for my wording, but this is simply nonsense. When you want to have
> Kubuntu, Kubuntu is what will give you Kubuntu.;-)
>
> >
> >
> >      > 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.
>
> As Nils pointed out this is done troublefree with a Live-CD. Use gparted
> and you can graphically change your disk sizes to what suits you best.
> As always, when you are juggling with partitions, a good backup is
> worthwhile. I never needed to use it, but its always good to have a
> fallback option.
>
> I am using RIP Linux (recovery is possible) or the sysrescue CD, but
> just about any Live CD will do.
>
>
> regards
> Eberhard
>
>
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