On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Jim Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@oz.net" target="_blank">jim@oz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks to those who helped. I have made some progress on recovering my upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10. The upgrade was done using Update Manager thus: "gksu "update-manager -d" " from a terminal. Everything appeared to go fine until time to boot the new system. It only went about half way and hung with a mess of error messages.I have since d/l a copy of the 12.04.01 install disk. Booting with the disk I was first unable to copy the files from my home directory to a portable HD. A workaround went thus: I was able to open a terminal on the desktop, then using the command "sudo su root" I opened a root shell in the terminal. In that shell I issued the command "nautilus" to open a file manager with root privileges. I then copied the entire /home directory to the portable HD with no problem. Thus backed up I can probably re-install with no problems.<br>
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I have one question. The partition I use for Ubuntu on this old laptop shows as 48Gb. Approximately how much should I use for / and how much for /home (home is about 20Gb)?<br>
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Thanks all<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jim<br>
</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That should be plenty -- I'm running 12.10 on this system and the / partition uses a bit less that 6 GB. (You want to make sure you have more than 1GB headroom so 48GB should be more than plenty, barring hard drive failures.)</div>
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