On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:13 PM, solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 > GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware > update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future.
Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? > The issue is that MacOs is at the start of the disc: > > ~$ > ~$ sudo /sbin/parted /dev/sda print > Model: ATA APPLE SSD SM0128 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 121GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > Partition Table: gpt > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, > esp > 2 210MB 22.6GB 22.4GB hfs+ > 3 22.6GB 23.2GB 650MB hfs+ > 4 23.2GB 31.2GB 8000MB linux-swap(v1) swap > 5 31.4GB 121GB 89.8GB ext4 linux > ~$ > > I would use parted from the installation media to delete partitions 1-4, > recreate the swap at the start (unless I decide to usa a file for the swap), > and move/extend the ext4 partition. > > This seems a bit risky, though. I already asked this, but is there a way to > completely backup my current system, so that I could quickly restore it on a > blank new partition, in case everything goes wrong? > > I have daily backups of /home, /usr/local, and /etc. But in case I need to > reinstall from scratch I think I need more. > > What's the best approach? > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ > ⠈⠳⣄ > -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast. http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html