Progress on 12.04 (Was: Re: 12.04 upgrade problem)
Jim Smith
jim at oz.net
Wed Nov 7 01:32:50 UTC 2012
Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net
> <mailto:jim at oz.net>> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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)?
>
> Thanks all
>
> Jim
>
>
> 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.)
>
Then it looks like 12Gb for / and 36Gb for /home should do it. That is
if I decide to partition it like that and not just install on all 48Gb
and then copy my /home files onto it.
Thanks
Jim
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