It was Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:54:22 +0200 when George Baker wrote:
> * Save my '/home' to my '/mnt/DOS_hda1' so that after I have resized
> '/home' I can copy it back to my new /home. (I understand that if
> you resize a partition you loose all data?)
Correct, resizing usually means destroying a partition. Unless you use
something like FIPS or Gnu-Parted. These do their best to preserve the info
(no warranty though).
Best you can do is tar /home to another disk.
> * Having realized that I did not do a very good job at partitioning
> when I installed (should have made partitions for '/usr', etc.),
> can I now make partitions for '/usr' on my '/dev/hda6' or '/'.
If you have space available on /dev/hda, you can use that. /usr probably is in
your / already so that doesn't bring much.
>If I do get another hard drive,
>
> * what are the recommended partitions to make?
My rule of thumb:
/ = 250mb
/usr = 3 to 5 Gb if available
swap = twice the amount of RAM (but 256M swap will do with 256M RAM)
/home = all the rest
You can consider making separate partitions for /etc and /var also but these
don't need to be that large. 200 to 400 megs each would more than suffice.
> * will I be able to copy my existing setup over to the new drive or
> will I have to reinstall. I understand that I will have to point
> LILO to the new drive.
You can do that, but I am not certain if this will work. I'd reinstall things.
When you copy everything over, there are always files that are in use and
such. These won't get copied. And you guessed it, these are usually important
files.
Paul
--
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
-Woody Allen
http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403
Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1
** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
