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