Disks are fairly inexpensive. Anything under IT, you can get an SSD instead of a hard disk for a somewhat reasonable price. Advantages are higher speed and greater reliability. If you have an existing Linux system where you absolutely cannot lose the system but you need more space, consider buying a bigger disk or add an SSD. I think the person's disk is 250G, so get a 500G SSD and dedicate the whole entire disk to boot, swap, and /. For 500G, an SSD will cost around $200 or less.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-850-EVO-500-GB-Internal-2-5-MZ-75E500B- AM-SSD-/252467674737?hash=item3ac83efe71:g:mrkAAOSw0HVWC6yK I've had very good luck with Samsung SSDs. There should be a way with the LVM2 tools to copy / to a new disk or SSD. A 1 terabyte SSD isn't too expensive. Consider /, boot, and swap on a 1 TB disk or SSD. If you copy your existing system to a larger disk and disconnect the original drive, your chances of borking your system beyond retrieval are lessened. I'm not recommending E-Bay to buy an SSD, but I've bought a number of these from E-Bay and haven't had any issues. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
