On Jul 31, 2006, at 5:51 PM, stephan beal wrote:
On Monday 31 July 2006 23:07, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote: ...
and / (root). I have imaged the machine (used systemrescuecd) and copied everything to the new HDD and resizing the / partition using ... qtparted to include the free space. I disconnected the old HDD and booted with the new drive and the system is up and running. However, when I do a df -h it still shows the / partition at about 36G.
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).
Or, better yet leave the 40 GB the boot disk and make the 80 GB home. Having the 80 for home will free up space on the 40 for the other partitions, but the home partitions usually take up the most space as that is where all your "stuff" is. Thanks, George -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com