On 04/10/2020 18:21, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: [snip]
I've done this a lot in the past and now I just don't. Disks are cheaper than my time, so I am prepared to multi-boot, but not from one disk.
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IIWM I'd acquire another disk or two and put everything on its own disk.
Seconded. Reading the original query I felt like I'd dropped through a time warp and gone about 20 years into the past. I wasn't aware that people did such convoluted installations any more.
Disks are ridiculously cheap these days. Give everything its own disk.
I'd take a safe image/copy of that 1.5 tib disk as my first action
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