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>>>>> "Kumar" == Adayapalam Appaiah Kumaraswamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kumar> Hello! I have a doubt; I want to be able to change my
Kumar> Linux installation without losing my personal files (all of
Kumar> which are in my $HOME). Now, the easy answer would be to
Kumar> create a seperate partition for /home and mount it at
Kumar> startup. However, that would mean that I would have to fix
Kumar> the size of /home. In case I run short of space in /home,
Kumar> but have a lot of space in some other partitions, do I make
Kumar> a seperate directory somewhere else (in /usr) and create a
Kumar> symblic link to it in my $HOME, or is there a way to resize
Kumar> /home by taking some space from other partitions without
Kumar> destroying data on them?
Create /home in an LVM volume, then you can add another volume (and
more space) whenever you wish.
Regards,
- -- Raju
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Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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