On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
You can probably shrink you Windows partition down to less than 50G.
How would I do that?
Put 200M aside for /boot Put 1G aside for / Put the rest in LVM.
You are sure that nothing would happen, given I am absolutely beginner...
I have this on a 80G drive. As you can see, 11.4 fits in easily and its nowhere near half of that 80G
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vgmain-TMP 1.5G 35M 1.4G 3% /tmp /dev/mapper/vgmain-usr 6.0G 3.2G 2.9G 53% /usr /dev/mapper/vgmain-usrshare 4.0G 2.6G 1.5G 63% /usr/share /dev/mapper/vgmain-usrsrc 484M 68M 417M 14% /usr/src /dev/mapper/vgmain-var 4.0G 1.9G 2.1G 48% /var /dev/mapper/vgmain-home 3.5G 1.7G 1.9G 47% /home
What's that? less than 20G ? Perhaps I have an old 30G IDE I could put 11.4 on as "throw-away"!
You could easily create a couple of spare "/" file systems for different distributions, a larger /boot ....
LVM gives you a lot of flexibility to manage
Ok, it is good for LVM, if it really does that, I practically I have no experience, I am sure nothing would go wrong! However, due to low, speed, I am sure the download would still take some time to be completed and then I could do, probably on the coming holiday. -- Thx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org