Hello Paul,
250GB is the capacity of your HDD
You do have an External HDD
2GB RAM
And your partitions are a bit of a mess :D
Well, this is what I would do if I were you:
1- BACKUP each and every important file to my external HDD
2- IF and ONLY IF you want to get rid of the whole thing and start
Original Message
Subject:Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:45:17 +0100
From: Barry Titterton
To: Phill Whiteside
On 08/04/13 20:21, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi loannis,
back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home
And as I said,
each to their own. There is no requirement to have /home on its' own
partition, this is a lesson learned by the avarage 'home' user when their
system has a power-outrage during an upgrade. (Yes, you are right... 1)
They never do actually take a backup and 2) having /home on a sepera
Correction:
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ioannis Vranos
wrote:
> Yes, keeping the settings (especially of many users), during upgrades,
> is a reason for a separate /home partition.
Multiuser production systems also need a separate ==> /tmp partition, etc.
> This is why I said "for some s
Yes, keeping the settings (especially of many users), during upgrades,
is a reason for a separate /home partition.
Multiuser production systems also need a separate /temp partition, etc.
This is why I said "for some specific reason".
Usually, home users do not need separate partitions.
Ioanni
Hi loannis,
back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home. Whether
this is still valid these days? Pass... would I ever forgo my seperate
/home partition? Never :)
You can do some crazy things, and bad things can happen to good machines. I
have always preferred my "home (i.e perso
Hi,
If you do not need separate partitions for some specific reason, I
suggest install Lubuntu in one / partition, along with a swap
partition ( it is the default Lubuntu installation).
Ioannis Vranos
http://www.cppsoftware.net
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I ne
Hi Paul,
I'd suggest letting /boot live in / (/boot can fill with old kernels if you
do not keep a close eye on them!)
Unless you are expecting to launch huge applications (not games, as they do
not like using swap) 2GB is enough for swap
My / partition which has boot, my log files and data files
Hi
I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly, my current system is dual boot
with linpus, which is never used, the rest of the system was ubuntu
which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have
previosuly referred to this as hybrid.
http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/
