Hello Tony, On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:44:46 +1000, Tony Crisp <supervoc@arc.net.au> wrote: [snip]
My thinking is that I would format the SSD as /boot = 500 MB, / = 50 GB, swap = 8 GB, and /home = 197 GB. After setting up the SSD as my boot disc I will transfer a number of folders from my current /home and leave the rest on the current disc which I would mount as /home/terry/disk2 (say).
Traditionally, /home was a separate partition to prevent lusers from filling up the root partition and potentially bringing the server down. Is there any advantage to having a separate /home partition on a Desktop system with only one (or a few) end-users?
I think so, having /home as a separate partition makes distro updates simpler.
I should add I have a second 500 GB disc that I can use to hold stuff while reformatting my current 500 GB drive.
If you have a spare 500 GB drive, I'd recommend using that instead (and not reformatting your existing 500 GB drive), until you're satisfied with your new setup, say in a few months down the track. You have a rollback option (and a data backup) then if everything goes pear shaped.
Yes, I wouldn't reformat my existing drive until it has all 'settled down'. [snip]
Now to reinstall grub, after a reboot with live distro...
Here it gets a bit murky for me, not quite sure what I should be doing. What I have read says mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt then proceeds to also mount /sys /proc /run /dev under /mnt, but this doesn't look right when my /dev/sdd1 is /boot
Can someone please clear up my confusion and perhaps point me to some advice that better fits the partitioning scheme I want to end up with?
Not sure about this either, but I get the impression at this point you want to chroot into your SSD root partiton (/dev/sdd2), and once there, mount all your other SSD partitions (if /etc/fstab has already been configured, 'mount -a' should do the trick). Once chrooted, you can install the boot loader.
OK.
Btw, is there any barrier to just doing a fresh install on the SSD, get that partitioned, bootable and running (as part of the installation process), and then mounting your existing 500 GB disk to copy the necessary data across?
Probably no barrier to that approach, but I do have a quite a lot of additional stuff installed. I suspect rsync'ing my system files across may be simpler...not sure. Thanks for your help. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell