16 Mar
2018
16 Mar
'18
8:26 p.m.
On Friday 16 March 2018 12:42:02 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Freitag, 16. März 2018 schrieb William Morder:
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.
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?
Thanks for your advice,
Bill
[...]
Will this work for an i386 machine, as well? I did try installing Devuan,
but without success (as it seems the process used by their installation
disc wants to overwrite my home folder); I also gave exegnulinux, but
that also was unsatisfactory.
If your home folder lives on the same partition as /, then you'll have some
work to do :-) 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