Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 3/9/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:11 PM
> 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.
> 
> 
Sorry NoOP.  I only have 1767 packages installed of 26204 listed so I guess I could fill up a lot of disc space if I had a need for it-:))
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net