[CoLoCo] partitioning (after the fact...)

[David L. Willson]

Take the backup, too.
-- Justin Case.

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 19:49 -0700, Ryan Taylor wrote:
> That's what I was hoping I could do... I give it a shot!
> 
> Thanks everyone.
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 12, 2007 5:43 PM, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote: 
>         Do you know how much free space you have?
>         You could use gpartd to partition the current avil space into
>         mutiple drives.  Then cp you home to the new partition, and
>         when you go to reinstal everything, just tell the installer to
>         mount the new partition as /home.  I think you'll have to fix
>         permisions on all the folders within, but that should be as
>         easy as doing a chown user:group /home/xxx.  
>         
>         To find out how much space you have 
>         
>         $ df -H
>         Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
>         /dev/sda1               11G   7.0G   3.1G  70% /
>         varrun                 530M   254k   530M   1% /var/run 
>         varlock                530M      0   530M   0% /var/lock
>         udev                   530M    70k   530M   1% /dev
>         devshm                 530M      0   530M   0% /dev/shm
>         lrm                    530M    37M   494M
>         7% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-386/volatile 
>         /dev/sda2               21G   9.5G    11G  48% /home
>         
>         When I set my system up I set up 3 partitions.  /, /home, and
>         swap.
>         
>         
>         
>         On Dec 12, 2007 5:24 PM, Ryan Taylor < rztaylor at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
>                 >Gutsy won't
>                 >automatically recognize and use your /home partition
>                 (unless you're 
>                 >upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.
>                 
>                 
>                 Sounds easy enough, but how do I do that ? 
>                 
>                 Thanks!
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Dec 12, 2007 4:43 PM, David L. Willson
>                 <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>                         Good idea, if you understand what you're
>                         doing.  AFAIK, Gutsy won't
>                         automatically recognize and use your /home
>                         partition (unless you're
>                         upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.
>                         
>                         If I was you, I would get a bigger stick and
>                         tar up my home-folder. 
>                         Alternately, use 7zip or arj to make backup
>                         volumes that fit onto
>                         whatever media you have available (stick, CDR,
>                         DVDR, or whatever).  Then
>                         TEST those backups and do a clean install and
>                         restore data as desired.
>                         It's not simple, but it's less complex than
>                         moving an existing system to
>                         multiple partitions.
>                         
>                         
>                         On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:25 -0700, Ryan Taylor
>                         wrote:
>                         > I'm about to switch over to Gutsy (I'm
>                         embarrassed to say I'm still 
>                         > running Edgy...), and I've decided to do a
>                         "clean" install (I've
>                         > mucked around with more things than I should
>                         have over the previous
>                         > months).  However I have limited thumb-drive
>                         space to make easy to 
>                         > reload my /home folder...
>                         >
>                         > In my currently setup I have three
>                         partitions (swap, / , and a ntfs
>                         > partition I've been using for music).  Can I
>                         use GParted or something
>                         > to go ahead and create a separate /home
>                         partition in Edgy, move (or 
>                         > copy) my "home" files into it, and then go
>                         through the Gutsy CD
>                         > install and it recognize and use my newly
>                         formed /home partition?
>                         >
>                         > Bad or good idea??
>                         >
>                         > I didn't see a good answer on the forums, so
>                         I though I'd turn to the 
>                         > list...
>                         >
>                         > thanks in advance,
>                         > Ryan
>                         >
>                         >
>                         
>                         
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