cool, thanks. Looks like the best option. is there some kind of website where I can upload and privately store the necessary files instead of burning them to disc? I don't have a burner... I'm not going to risk upgrading, had too many problems in the past. I'll just wait until I've built my new pc ;)...
thanks Farran :P On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 23:21 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > 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 > >
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