Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Well I followed the advice of Mark and Gustin and installed Debian 5.0 > from scratch. As Gustin suggested I put everything on one big partition.
Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with multiple partitions, in fact there are good reasons to things this way. Of course the problems remains that you need to know what is going on and how to change or resize things later. For a production machine I at the very least keep /var in its own partition and or drive. > > I copied back /home/robin from my rdiff-backup area on my external HD, > skipping any newer files. I also have back ups of /etc, /user and > /var. Should I also copy these back to my HD? > /usr should not be copied. Reinstall your applications via aptitude. I have a bunch of custom scripts that go into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin and these directories (ie. everything in /usr/local) can be copied without harm. There are something things in /var that move. VMWare by default keeps the VMs in /var/lib/vmware, so that could be restored (you would have to reinstall vmware). If you were migrating a mail server /var/spool might be of interest, but in your case, for a desktop machine there is likely nothing here of interest. There may be the odd config file in /etc/ that you may wish to restore depending on what you had installed previously. Unless you know otherwise, I would leave it alone. Hth,
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