A few more questions

[Timothy Holmes]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:02 PM Bruno Mendoza <brunomendoza at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 17, 2016, at 10:36 PM, Timothy Holmes <taholmes160 at gmail.com>
> 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?
>
> You could give us more information about that HDD.
>

Its a samsung 80gb ide drive. Some more digging shows me it is formatted
ntfs, and I suspect it has old data.  I think I need to back up the data
and format it but I am not sure.  Can I format it without hurting the other
drive?  I assume I can, but you know what they say about assuming. Lol. I
was rooting around in the disk manager, and I think I got the auto mount
prob resolved.



> >
> > 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
>
> What is your hardware?
>

Computer is a 2003 vintage pentium 4 2.4 ghz.  2 gb of memory in single
channel mode. Video outputs are the onboard one and an added agp card.  See
above for drive info.

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> >
> > 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.
>
> You could create a logical volume and mount / and /home in different
> partitions.
>

Can I install lvm without killing the data on the boot drive?

>
>
>
> Thanks


Tim
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