Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

["Brian Blater (BBList)" <bblist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at  5:51 PM, in message <200607312351.43378.stephan@xxxxxxxx>, stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Imaging stores the partition table, which means it also stores the size 
of your partitions. Somewhere on your drive you have 40GB of unused 
space. You don't just "get a larger partition" by installing a new 
drive - you have to partition it to be the size you want it to be. i 
recommend doing a full (clean) install on your new drive, 
repartitioning it as you want. However, 30GB+ is overkill for the root 
partition. In general 10GB is all you'll ever need in a root partition. 
Put the rest of the space in /home (or, even better, put /home on a 
second drive - your old 40GB drive).
>>>

Thanks, I guess the ghosting/imaging method is different on linux. You learn something new every day. Is 10G for root really enough? It seams most apps etc. get placed in /opt or /var/opt. Anyways, as someone else suggested, I may go back to the 40G for my main drive and mount /home on the 80G.

Brian