Enough room, yes. But you would be resizing an existing partition that has data you specifically don't want to lose. You wouldn't want to make a mistake with that. Instead, why not tar and bunzip your /home and copy it off somewhere. Do you have another machine you could copy such a file to? You could do something like this: cd /home tar cjpf home_files.tbz * Then, go to bed, because this could take awhile. In the morning you will be able to: ls -l home_files.tbz and you'll know approx how much room they'll take on another machine. CAUTION: If you also need to preserve mail, web pages, and ftp, you may need to copy those from /var, if they're not already copied, symlink'd, or otherwise backed up. Glenn at home writes: > I guess it depends on what you mean by free space. > I partitioned the entire 27 gig when I installed, and left no space > unformatted. > It seems that the last time I looked at my drive with: > df /dev/hda1 > it reads that I have either used or have 46% there to use. > Either way, I am sure that more than 4% is used by the system files, so I > think I have enough room to make a partition if that is possible. > Glenn > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 7:50 PM > Subject: Re: re-installing Debian > > > Glenn at home writes: > > Is it possible for me to add a partition now, without wiping out what is > > already there? > > Possible, yes. > > Advisable? Maybe. Maybe not. > > If you have free space, or an existing partition you aren't using and > don't need any longer, then absolutely. Do it. If you have to resize, I > would be leary. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.