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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/2016 05:36 PM, Timothy Holmes
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type="cite">Hi guys:
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<div>Im still working on my new machine, and have a few questions.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>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</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>Tim</div>
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<p dir="ltr">Tim Holmes - W8TAH<br>
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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 <br>
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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 <br>
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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<br>
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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<br>
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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 <br>
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I should think that Ubuntu will also.<br>
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--doug, WA2SAY<br>
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