Reinstallation / Migration HOWTO?

[Nolan Cooper]

  Nolan flopped in chair, hunched shoulders, and pecked out:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> No he couldn't, he is already using up 11 MB in /. However, I do think
> that is the biggest that I've ever seen for an Ubuntu system. It's
> huge, and I cannot imagine it going any bigger, assuming that he is
> not storing user-data or virtual machines on the partition.
> 
Say What??!!

11MB=>10GB   NOT!!
nolan