Re: Debian Sarge dual boot install

I demand that bruce_phipps@xxxxxxxxxxx may or may not have written...

> I've decided to trash the Win partition and go for a Linux-only PC. I will
> investigate using qtparted to set this up.

[snip]
> 2) After reformatting the Win partition (12GB), the whole Debian system
> will be on a separate 8GB partition, inder the root directory "/". Can
> I safely move /home and other user directories over to the 12 GB
> partition?

Yes.

However, you should take the opportunity to make a smaller root partition
(6GB is adequate), copy files from your current root partition to it (parted
may be able to do a move+shrink, which will make this easier), then delete
the old root partition and create a larger /home.

(If you do this, you should probably use a parted boot CD or equivalent
floppies.)

Don't forget swap - 512MB is probably more than adequate. Also, /tmp is
(should be) a tmpfs mount - this uses swap space as backing store and
defaults to a size equal to half of the available RAM.

> The Debian install did not offer me a user-friendly option to create
> separate partitions for /home, /swap etc. AFAIK.

If you find the same problem when you next do a Debian install, press Alt-F2
(IIRC; it may be Alt-F3) - you should find that you have a shell console from
which you can run fdisk or cfdisk. Partition with that then swap back
(Alt-F1)

(Of course, you may have selected an "insufficiently advanced" option and
simply not been presented with the option.)

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