Boot an Ubuntu Install/Live CD. Run gparted and us it to resize your
existing catch all partition down. Use the freed up space to create a
new partition.
Reboot into your existing install. Mount the new partition, copy /home
to it. Rename /home to /homeOld. Unmount new partition, then remount as
/home.
There ya go separate home partition, ready to ported to a new distro (go
on, you already have that Ubuntu CD)
HTH
Mike
Dennis Bagley wrote:
Jeff,
Thanks, I sort of knew about the special partition - but you gave me
more details.
Unfortunately, while that will work great for some future install from
scratch, it doesn't help a lot
on an existing install.
Dennis
Jeff Shippen wrote:
If you have /home as it's own partition, no problem at all. For
example, when I first installed Linux, keeping that exact concern in
mind, I set up a large partition up and set it to mount as /home, all
in the partitioning stage of the install. Now every install after
that, you want to make sure to do a custom partitioning, and ensure
that the partition is not formated, and again mount it to /home. The
rest of the partitions you'll probably want formated.
You can look up websites for partitioning guides too, but it's
basically all dependent on how big your hard drive is. If I only had
a 6 gig drive, on an older PC, I would just have two partitions
personally. one for / and one for swap. If the hard drive is large, I
use the number of install CDs there are as a guide to how big I would
need for the / partition. With 5 CDs, you will need at least 3.5
gigs, so you might just add a couple gigs for a 6 gig partition if you
were being conservative, or make it bigger if you anticipate
installing large software.
Hope that helps,
Jeff
Dennis Bagley wrote:
If you wanted to switch to a different distro but keep a bunch of
files you had in your home directory......
Besides making backups - is there a way to install the new distro and
keep your home directory pretty much intact?
(not re-format and not erase everything?)
Dennis
_______________________________________________
RLUG mailing list
RLUG@rlug.org
http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
_______________________________________________
RLUG mailing list
RLUG@rlug.org
http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
_______________________________________________
RLUG mailing list
RLUG@rlug.org
http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
_______________________________________________
RLUG mailing list
RLUG@rlug.org
http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
