re-installing Debian

[Janina Sajka]

Enough room, yes. But you would be resizing an existing partition that
has data you specifically don't want to lose. You wouldn't want to make
a mistake with that.

Instead, why not tar and bunzip your /home and copy it off somewhere. Do
you have another machine you could copy such a file to?

You could do something like this:

cd /home

tar cjpf home_files.tbz *

Then, go to bed, because this could take awhile. In the morning you will
be able to:

ls -l home_files.tbz

and you'll know approx how much room they'll take on another machine.

CAUTION: If you also need to preserve mail, web pages, and ftp, you may
need to copy those from /var, if they're not already copied, symlink'd,
or otherwise backed up.

Glenn at home writes:
> I guess it depends on what you mean by free space.
> I partitioned the entire 27 gig when I installed, and left no space 
> unformatted.
> It seems that the last time I looked at my drive with:
> df /dev/hda1
> it reads that I have either used or have 46% there to use.
> Either way, I am sure that more than 4% is used by the system files, so I 
> think I have enough room to make a partition if that is possible.
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review 
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> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 7:50 PM
> Subject: Re: re-installing Debian
> 
> 
> Glenn at home writes:
> > Is it possible for me to add a partition now, without wiping out what is
> > already there?
> 
> Possible, yes.
> 
> Advisable? Maybe. Maybe not.
> 
> If you have free space, or an existing partition you aren't using and
> don't need any longer, then absolutely. Do it. If you have to resize, I
> would be leary.
> 
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