Basil Chupin wrote: > John E. Perry wrote: >> >> Just two problems: first, I took others' advice again to switch from >> Reiser to ext3fs, but my home directory is too big to get onto cd's or >> dvd's, so I now have a system based on ext3fs except for the /home >> directory, which is still Reiser. I'm digging through the home >> directories so I can divide it onto several dvds, but it's going to take >> a while. >> > > How big *is* your /home directory?! :-) >
32+G. I have thousands of technical documents from 35+ years of engineering work, hundreds more from hobbies I've had over the years, and dozens more from various projects I've done on contract since I got laid off from my last few jobs. > And how big is your / partition where Suse is intstalled? Surely it must > be big enough and with enough space left for you to copy your current > /home directory to / then format your current /home partition in ext3 > and then it copy back from / . No, this can't be done? / is 20G, of which suse 10.2 takes up 5.7G, and I haven't finished installing all the applications I need and want. -- John Perry Embedded Electronics -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
