A few more questions

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Mon Oct 17 23:25:13 UTC 2016


On 10/17/2016 05:36 PM, Timothy Holmes wrote:
> Hi guys:
>
> Im still working on my new machine, and have a few questions.
>
> 1.  It has an 80 gb hdd that I would like to have stay mounted (or 
> more properly remount) at boot time. How do I accomplish this?
>
> 2. This same drive. In the file manager only shows 31.5GiB. Instead of 
> the 80 its supposed to.  I have all the data on usb stick, so 
> formatting is an option.  But im not sure how to do that.  The manager 
> shows it as an 80gb ntfs file system
>
> I would like to move my home folder to the big drive, leaving all of 
> the boot drive for programs etc. Good idea? Bad idea? No idea?  Also, 
> if its good, how do I accomplish it short of wiping and starting over.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
> -- 
>
> Tim Holmes - W8TAH
> Sent from my LG Stylo
>
>
>
I think you have the right basic idea as to what you want to do. You 
would have the / partition on the 80GiB drive. But first, what's with 
the 80 GB drive? If you look at it with GParted, does it

show the whole disk as one big partition? And if so, does it show 31 G 
used and 49 G free, or what? It might turn out that you _should_ redo 
the partitions into one full sized one, if that's

what you want, and of course if you do modify it, then format any new 
partition(s). You will have to move things around, I imagine in order to 
create what you want. If your files are

backed up, as you say, probably the easiest way to work it would be to 
format and label both drives, the 80 as / and the large drive as /home, 
and the / drive would be your boot drive, as

well as the program drive -- /boot, /bin, /etc, and so on. The install 
routine should do that all correctly, I believe, altho I haven't done 
any Ubuntu stuff in a long time. But Mint can do that, so

I should think that Ubuntu will also.

--doug, WA2SAY




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