Glenn at home writes: > Would it be better to make my new partition a primary partition, or an > extended one, since this will be /home. Matters not. Let your system decide. > And, can I get away with naming it home? If I do, what will happen when I > re-install, and it sees a partition called home? OK. You said you're going to reinstall Debian. I don't recall how Debian treats that. I would suspect it won't have a label for it though, and you'll have to supply the label. I suspect it will just give you a list of partitions for you to specify both whether you want each partition formatted, and what label you wish for each partition. The list would be something like: /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 depending on how many partitions, how many disks, what type of disks, etc. > 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.
