Hello Tony, On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:44:46 +1000, Tony Crisp <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] >> >> My thinking is that I would format the SSD as /boot = 500 MB, / = 50 GB, >> swap = 8 GB, and /home = 197 GB. After setting up the SSD as my boot >> disc >> I will transfer a number of folders from my current /home and leave the >> rest on the current disc which I would mount as /home/terry/disk2 (say). > > Traditionally, /home was a separate partition to prevent lusers from > filling up the root partition and potentially bringing the server down. > Is there any advantage to having a separate /home partition on a Desktop > system with only one (or a few) end-users? > I think so, having /home as a separate partition makes distro updates simpler. >> I should add I have a second 500 GB disc that I can use to hold stuff >> while reformatting my current 500 GB drive. > > If you have a spare 500 GB drive, I'd recommend using that instead (and > not reformatting your existing 500 GB drive), until you're satisfied > with your new setup, say in a few months down the track. You have a > rollback option (and a data backup) then if everything goes pear shaped. Yes, I wouldn't reformat my existing drive until it has all 'settled down'. [snip] >> >> Now to reinstall grub, after a reboot with live distro... >> >> Here it gets a bit murky for me, not quite sure what I should be doing. >> What I have read says mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt then proceeds to also mount >> /sys /proc /run /dev under /mnt, but this doesn't look right when my >> /dev/sdd1 is /boot >> >> Can someone please clear up my confusion and perhaps point me to some >> advice that better fits the partitioning scheme I want to end up with? >> > > Not sure about this either, but I get the impression at this point you > want to chroot into your SSD root partiton (/dev/sdd2), and once there, > mount all your other SSD partitions (if /etc/fstab has already been > configured, 'mount -a' should do the trick). Once chrooted, you can > install the boot loader. OK. > > Btw, is there any barrier to just doing a fresh install on the SSD, get > that partitioned, bootable and running (as part of the installation > process), and then mounting your existing 500 GB disk to copy the > necessary data across? Probably no barrier to that approach, but I do have a quite a lot of additional stuff installed. I suspect rsync'ing my system files across may be simpler...not sure. Thanks for your help. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
