Farran Lee wrote: > hi all > > reading through the posts and suddenly realised, I could do with a > separate /home partition!I have been meaning to look into it for ages, > but keep forgetting. > I have an 18.63 GiB hd. 17.84 GiB is / and 807.93 MiB is swap. Is it > possible/safe/advisable to attempt creating a /home partition, and if I > did, would the file location of /home automatically mount? And would it > mess up any paths in scripts/programs etc? > Sorry if that didn't make any sense... hopefully someone'll understand it! > > Cheers > Farran >
Someone else might be able to better advise on this but I'd go down the option of backing up the data, running GParted (which you can get a live CD of, or IIRC run it from the Ubuntu Live CD), resize the partition, create a new partition as ext3 and then update the fstab accordingly to mount the partition as /home on bootup. Or... if you're looking to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 tomorrow then just backup your home directory, reinstall and during the reinstall repartition the drive so you have a separate partition for /home. I must admit, I always used to have everything on one partition but now I have a separate partition for /home it makes life so much easier to upgrade. In fact I'm surprised that there isn't maybe an option in the installer (but then I guess that could throw up all sorts of confusions on how big should / be and how big should /home be? - in my case I have about 40GB for / and the rest of my drive for /home) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
