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Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

From ntrfug <ntrfug@cox.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade
Date 2018-05-19 16:30 +0200
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On Thu, 17 May 2018 18:06:46 -0500
Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> wrote:

> This must be a FAQ. But there appear to be two ways forward.
> 
> 1. Back-up /home, enlarge / partition, copy back-up back to new,
> smaller /home partition (because /home will then start on a different
> cylinder so data will be lost).
> 
> or
> 
> 2. Carve out a new partition for /usr at end of disk which will free
> up over 6 gb.
> 
> What have other people done?
> 
> Thanks.

More than 20 years ago I began saving personal files to a different partition than the OS.

I've used this system for Windows (when I started) and for more flavors of Linux than I can remember. I did this so I could wipe the root partition and reinstall without destroying my personal files.

I call it "files" and mount it on /home/ntrfug/Documents at boot.

I also have a 100 Gb partition for "music", mounted at boot to /home/ntrfug/Music.

Everything else goes on single 22 Gb partition, now labeled "Stretch" (49% occupied).

I use KDE with a fair but not extensive portfolio of software, but which include LyX, which requires LaTeX and TeX (that's a lot of dependency).

I backup the root partition before I reinstall, and after installation move settings for individual applications to the new home directory.

For example I started using sylpheed for email when accounts and preferences were saved in regular text files. Later it morphed to claws-mail and migrated to xml preferences that I could not re-create to save my life. Fortunately I just moved the /home/ntrfug/.config/claws-mail directory to my new system and it came up with all my preferences and accounts the first time I started. (I save my email folders in /home/ntrfug/files/Mail).

I use VirtualBox, and virtual machines live in /home/ntrfug/files/virtualbox.

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making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-18 01:10 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-18 01:40 +0200
    Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-18 02:10 +0200
      Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 10:30 +0200
        Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-21 18:20 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-21 18:50 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-21 19:00 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 19:30 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 19:30 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-25 02:30 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-25 20:30 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-18 03:10 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-18 03:30 +0200
    Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-05-18 13:10 +0200
      Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-18 14:10 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-18 05:00 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade ntrfug <ntrfug@cox.net> - 2018-05-19 16:30 +0200
    Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Charlie S <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 08:00 +0200
      Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-20 14:40 +0200
        Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 15:10 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-20 16:30 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-05-20 16:40 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 17:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 20:50 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 21:40 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 22:00 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 20:50 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-21 07:20 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-21 02:10 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-21 08:00 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-21 10:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-21 11:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 17:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 21:10 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 21:50 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 22:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 23:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 23:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-22 00:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-22 20:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-22 21:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-22 22:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 23:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-22 22:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Jerome Kutche <n9lya@uronode.n9lya.ampr.org> - 2018-05-22 23:40 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-05-23 03:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-23 10:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 14:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2018-05-21 15:10 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-21 16:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2018-05-25 11:40 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-25 22:50 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-25 23:20 +0200

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