On Thu August 23 2018 19:52:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > And after about 3 more installs, I got it to work, but in my calculations > for partition size, I forgot theres around 80 GB in /var, my web pages > etc, which was going to be in the / partition, so 40Gb was soon filled > up in copying it across. But lots of empty space left in home, so I > fired up gparted to shrink the top of home and make room for a new /opt > partition. But gparted refuses to do that resize/move. So it looks > like another whole new install tomorrow, except tomorrow will be after a > new quick change drive cage arrives Some possibilities you could consider are (1) fewer partitions and (2) LVM. --Mike