re-installing Debian

[Janina Sajka]

Glenn at home writes:
> Would it be better to make my new partition a primary partition, or an 
> extended one, since this will be /home.


Matters not. Let your system decide.

> And, can I get away with naming it home?  If I do, what will happen when I 
> re-install, and it sees a partition called home?


OK. You said you're going to reinstall Debian. I don't recall how Debian
treats that. I would suspect it won't have a label for it though, and
you'll have to supply the label. I suspect it will just give you a list
of partitions for you to specify both whether you want each partition
formatted, and what label you wish for each partition. The list would be
something like:

/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3

depending on how many partitions, how many disks, what type of disks,
etc.

> Glenn
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review 
> system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> 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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