Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[NoOp]

On 03/09/2009 09:30 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> --- On Mon, 3/9/09, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> You could easily get by with a 10 GB / partition using a separate
> /home & /swap partition. On my ubuntus, / is only about 6 GB in
> size.

My / is 32.5GB & subtracting the 20.4GB for /home means that my / is
12.1GB. Mind you that I tend to install just about everything under the
sun on this system - my /usr directory is 7.1GB and my /opt directory is
2.8GB.