On Thursday 24 July 2014 22:49:01 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Going by the subject, I'd say "wipe your system drive and do another > install, using what you have learned to do it better." > > > A better option is to install onto a spare drive, so that you can boot > the old drive in case you forgot something. The old drive then becomes > your spare for the next go-around. > > > Yes, indeed. I previously complained about its partitioning with little > > capability to revise it! (I did not use LVM because it put everything in > > one big physical partition which I also did not like.) > > I use the "manual" partitioning option in the Debian installer. > > > I have a SOHO with several Wheezy Xfce machines. I don't use LVM, ZFS, > RAID, etc., because my needs don't require them, and because I've found > that the administrative complexities outweigh the operational benefits. > > > So, want to install a more recent kernel? No room. > > That means the partition containing /boot is full, or nearly so. You > need to allocate more space to /boot and/or / (root) when you re-install. > > > My system drives are partitioned as follows. I don't need to save core > dumps in swap, so it is smaller than RAM. I tried running without swap, > but my machines crashed under heavy RAM loads: > > primary #1 - 0.5 GB bootable ext4 /boot > primary #2 - 0.5 GB random encrypted swap > primary #3 - 8.0 GB encrypted ext4 / > > > My bulk data fits on one encrypted ext4 drive, which is in one machine > and is shared via Samba. The same drive and machine also provides > Approx and CVS services. My backups, archives, and system images are on > various encrypted ext4 drives that I can plug into any machine (via > mobile docks/ caddies and/or external drives). I keep my desktop very > light and install Xfce on all the machines, so I can move my desktop to > another machine easily.
This is very good and sound advice, actually. Problem is, I tried selecting manual partitioning on the install and saw no interface to actually do it. (If I set up partitions beforehand, will the installation simply respect them?) Another alternative: First, to do the above or anything else with the older 1- terra. I need to thoroughly test it, do something about the bad spot if it is still around after formatting. Once I know I can use this drive, I can reinstall to it or ... Move the too-small root partition to a reasonable primary on this drive. Can have a separate boot is desirable, maybe in the former / which is all of 325meg--yuk! I can make other partitions for /opt or anything else which is getting full-up. Moving stuff and changing fstab is no problem. Question: How do I tell grub about new /, new /boot, etc.?? Seems to be mostly automatic with little documentation. Or do I go back to lilo which I at least know how to configure :-)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/39067878.UhjSdYYNyu@dovidhalevi