I'm trying to figure out which would be the best possible solution for me..

I installed slackware 9.1 on my laptop and created two partitions. one for
swap and one for linux native. but now i'd like to create more and put
/usr and /home in a seperate partition. should i reinstall completely and
just backup most of my important stuff in /home to a zip disk.. or should
i get a program and resize my partitions i already have to make room for a
new one?

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"unilynx" <blank@blank.org> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to figure out which would be the best possible solution for
> me..
>
> I installed slackware 9.1 on my laptop and created two partitions. one
> for swap and one for linux native. but now i'd like to create more and
> put
> /usr and /home in a seperate partition. should i reinstall completely and
> just backup most of my important stuff in /home to a zip disk.. or should
> i get a program and resize my partitions i already have to make room for
> a new one?

Personally I found resizing worked like a dream. Use GNU Parted, very easy,
then just create the extra partitions with fdisk and move your stuff onto
them.

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, unilynx dared to utter,
> I'm trying to figure out which would be the best possible solution for me..

Back-up the stuff to the zip drive. You may be able to get by just fine
using gnuparted, but there's no gaurentee of that. Should something go
wrong, you will loose all your data and wish you had made a back-up.

First rule of sys-admining: Never make a change that you can't reverse.

--
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5

Alan Hicks <1001298936@carrier.lizella.net> wrote:
> First rule of sys-admining: Never make a change that you can't reverse.

I'll second that.
And the second rule is: make a backup anyway, better safe then sorry!
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Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@math.tudelft.nl> says...
>
>> First rule of sys-admining: Never make a change that you can't reverse.
>
>I'll second that.
>And the second rule is: make a backup anyway, better safe then sorry!

Also, if you haven't actually tested your ability to do a restore
from your backup to another computer, you haven't made a backup.

Whenever I start a new job I refuse to store my work on the network
unless they have demonstrated that they can pull out the hard drives,
put in the spares ("what do you mean you have no spares? Do you have
any idea how little hard drives cost compared to the data on them?")
and restore the system. About half of the companies had already done
that, a fourth did it and it worked, and a fourth couldn't do the
restore. Reasons include files not being backed up, no media to do
an OS install, or the only copy of the backup software being on the
disks that were removed.



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