Am Freitag, 16. März 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
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