Am Freitag, 16. M�rz 2018 schrieb William Morder: > > If your home folder lives on the same partition as /, then you'll have some > > work to do :-) > > Yeah ... I copied my home folder to another hard drive (a precaution for > whenever I am about to experiment, or do something stupid); so that it would > be possible to make my home folder something like sdb3, etc. ... if that is > what you mean. exactly. that's a good way not to loose your data :-) > Most of my important files are kept elsewhere, on other hard BIG drives; the > root partion and home folder are installed on a 100 GB hard drive. And I only > use the home folder for temporary files, which will eventually get moved to > one of those other places. Otherwise, the only real purpose of my home folder > is to keep all my settings intact. > > If I follow what you're saying, then I could partition that 100 GB hard drive > something like: > sda1 = / > sda2 = /boot > sda3 = swap > > But that seems like a waste of space, as even a generous root partition has > never been bigger than about 30 GB, and a boot partition is maybe 2 or 3, and > maybe 4-6 GB for swap -- which leaves at least 60 GB for what? > > Or maybe something else would be better? Then I could use a partition on sdb > as my home folder? Space is cheap. Anyhow, you most likely will never use swap. And /boot does not need to be on a seperate partition, just keep it on /. You can always resize/create/erase partitions with gparted (puppylinux comes in handy for this), so it essentilly does not matter with what size you start, you can always change that later. 20GB for / is OK, make the rest /home. But before installing a new OS, please copy /home/your-user to /home/copy-of-your-user - and check twice that you use the right partition :-) > > Thanks for your advice, > > Bill > > > > > > > My current system is Debian Jessie, and runs pretty much like I want, > > > except for some minor bugs. My biggest complaint is systemd, and I really > > > want to go back to using sysvinit. > > > > > > Also: I wonder if it is possible to switch to Devuan without doing a > > > complete reinstallation? i.e., after changing over to sysvinit, can I > > > enable Devuan repositories (and disable Debian), then do something like > > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > > or whatever? > > > > > > Bill > > > > You can move from debian jessie to devuan jessie without problems, just > > follow the guide > > https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-jessie-announce-052517 section > > "Upgrade". When you do the upgrade, please do it on a console, not on a X11 > > terminal. > > > > Nik > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...