But after you're done!!

!!Party!!

All new and shiny, and quick and clean!!!!

And you can make the changes, you allways wanted to!!

You'll love it!!

(and another thing, if its not to your liking, do it the way you want before you are completely moved in.....because than it gets difficult again...

(while doing this, why don't you throw windows away also?
This way, you can decide how much space you realy need for windows, its too big anyhow, and now is the chance to finaly get rid of it....who needs windows?)

I'm not sure giving the advice to not bother backing everything up first is really good advice. You're probably right that only home need be backed up, but its not our machine. I'm also quite sure the moderators would take a dim view of recommending downloading, installing, and running pirated software. I do not know of any nicely packaged "ghosting" utility for Linux - but the dd command would do the job. It will quite cheerfully back-up an entire partition - or drive for that matter. You'll be left with the quandary of where to write the back-up, but you'd have that problem regardless of method. I still think LVM is the way to go - but you know what they say about opinions.

f you use LVM you are stuck on it, it's the last thing I would ever do, because nothing is changeble after that...

Best thing is to know what one wants, and do it that way.
Personaly on my PC's, i like /usr, /opt, and /var, seperate partitions. Also /, and /boot.
/boot 15MB, /,1GB, /usr 4GB, /opt 4GB, /var 1GB, swap 400MB, /home as big as you like...

A little more than 10Gigs, and you'll have the most configurable system, and fast! Boot can be fat32, you need 7.5MB to be exact, but with images and so on...15MB is allright.

Maybe 'Da Santa' will give you a new harddrive, from say about 120Gig, and you'll be out of trouble for nearly the rest of your life, put it next to your old one, and you won't have to worry about where to leave back-ups, music, pics, movies and so on....

'Dear Santa, i always wanted a new harddrive, if possible a smartdrive about 120GB, more is ok with me also..."

Jesus, microlinux, I saw y're hdd is much to small, its nearly big enough for one complete system...

Debian can be small, on my laptop its only 900MB, its on one partition there, 1,1GB.than i have swap 180MB, 55MB for the frugal DSL, and than /home 3.4 GB. This debian doesn't have K or G, but xfce and icewm.

I remember using win '95, and that was something about 300MB.

Are you using '95?

Oooh, you naughty boy!
...to recommend pirated software!
......Shame on you! Don't you know that nobody gets rich, if everybody gives it all away?...Ehh, I mean, if everybody takes it like that? (sorry!)

lol...

You know, I still can't figure out about these brothers:'Nobody, and Everybody?'
How can Nobody get rich, if Everybody gives it all away? You know?
I realy can't understand....

lol..

But:

I would understand that Nobody would get rich, when Everybody gave the things he took like that to Nobody!

You do realize that no matter how many times you post to the same thread your post count won't go up, right?

I'm running Win XP, with debian 3.1. I'm running flux, but I'm not sure what else I can get rid of. It's a laptop, so I can't just add another HD. I'm gonna see if I can get a bigger HD, eventually.

You can get an external USB 2.0 drive for backup purposes and the such. A backup usb hard drive should not take that much space, so you can easily buy one for a reasonable price.

Just one more way to backup.

so is there a command to tar-up(for lack of a better term) /, and then later untar it to another readily made partition(e.g. if I remove everything completely, perhaps by reformatting, and then basically copy what I had previously to a bigger partition)?

I've never done it, but one way I am thinking is to boot with a LiveCD like Knoppix, then build a tar file on your backup drive containing your entire / drive (not the livecd's /, your real /). This in my mind would work fine.

You can then partition/delete/whatever you want to your partition and then (still in the livecd) you can untar the file from the backup drive back to the real hard drive.

In my head seems like it would work fine, but it will take a long time to tar/untar...

how would you do that? I'm not overly familiar with tarring things, and I'm not at a linux machine until late tonight.

No i did not notice that, what I noticed were the mistakes I wrote, and realizing how many people might read it, so I tried to correct them..

To be earnest, it takes very many posts to become a senior member, you stay a member until post 999, if I recal right...

Looks also different in the reply-box, than in the real post...