Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[NoOp]

On 03/09/2009 06:08 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> --- 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-:)) 

No worries... install another 945 packages & then you'll be right up
there with the rest of us 'crazies' :-)