hi there, I want to do some changes to partition sizes and a clean install with hardy on my notebook which runs feisty by now. Before I start my upgrade to hardy I have some questions and I am hoping for answers :-)
- By now my root dir is 5.2 GB big and now after a year filled to 3.6GB. I thought of reducing it by at least 500MB. These 500MB I would then add to my swap (by now 512MB) - In total I want to increase my swap to 1024mb so that I can use hibernating on my laptop. I have 1GB ram so when I am correct I need 1GB of swap space to hibernate, correct? What is your experience with hibernating? (not stand-by) I have a Toshiba satellite P100 if that matters. - By now my /home partition is 6GB and full, so there is no way to fit that on a single layer DVD for backup reasons So I will increase its size as well. - What are your recommendations about moving other parts to separate partitions? /tmp, /var or to much hassle? - Although I want to do a clean install to get rid of the debris of my initial "getting familiar with ubuntu" period I would like to keep as many settings as possible. But how can I select needed from not needed? What about starting with a clean /home and then copy everything from the backup as needed? This would probably cause some trouble with evolution/amarok/f-spot... Especially with Firefox I've read that 'starting over' can increase stability quite a bit. So what about exporting bookmarks and blocklist and settings and then install all add-ons new instead of copying the whole profile over? - By now I downloaded the alternate install CD and I was thinking about making use of the encryption feature? are USB fingerprint reader (thinkfinger) supported? Any experience? What about using a USB dongle with gpg key? Cheers, Sebastian A note regarding the migration assistant: I've used the assistant when I installed feisty to import everything into a 'windows' profile. By now I don't even know the password for this profile and I never logged in to use it. I migrated Firefox and Thunderbird myself and off I went. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
