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you won't lose your /home drive as long as you have it as a seperate partition. I don't know what /dev/shm is, but you could use Gnu Parted to resize the /hda2 (root) and then with the freespace create a new fs, onto which you then copy the home dir. then during install, just make sure it doesnt mess with that particular partition. (ie. use it for swap or something)
Originally posted by nakkaya /hda2 is all / and my /home directory is on it so i have to resize my existing hda2 int to 2 partions without losing data on it
reread my post. are you repeating me or was I just unclear? Either way, that's what i meant to say. ; )
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