New install. Partioning advice please.

[Nat Gross]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Nat Gross wrote:
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>> Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>> Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>> On a new FC3 (or FC2) install, on one hard drive, how do I set it 
>>>> up so that certain directory structures do not get erased when 
>>>> installing to a future version of Linux?
>>>> And as a follow up question, can I re-partion an existing fc2 
>>>> system, to allow the same?
>>>> I wasn't aware that this was possible, but the FC-3 install notes 
>>>> allows for reading the iso's "from a hard drive location not 
>>>> overwritten by the installation", which prompted this question. 
>>>> This would prove extremely useful of course, not only for the 
>>>> purpose os install iso's.
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>>> You do this my making separate partitions for the areas you think 
>>> you'll want to keep when doing a fresh install (not an upgrade) at a 
>>> later date. Typically this would be /home and maybe /usr/local.
>>>
>>> If you have the ISO images for a new version downloaded to somewhere 
>>> in one of these partitions, you should be able to install from them, 
>>> whilst reformatting and reinstalling everything else.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>> Sounds great. One question, can I repartition the existing fc2 /ext3 
>> drive without losing data?
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>
> Possibly. It depends on how your system is currently partitioned, how 
> much free space you have and what structure you want to end up with.

Simple fc2 default install has my disk as follows:
/dev/hda1 98meg  /boot  85.4 meg free
/dev/hda2 71gig   /         62  gig free.
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I would like to have a /usr/data structure (or  /data) where I store 
data from ALL apps.
Also, a /usr/myPrograms structure, for programs that I 'manually' (not 
from the distro)  install.
TA
-nat

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> Paul.
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