On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 5:51 PM, in message <200607312351.43378.stephan@s11n.net>, stephan beal
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