Bill Dubinski
October 18th, 2013, 03:31 PM
Good Day folks,
I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to help me out of give me advice on this day.
I am a three year user of Ubuntu products, done plenty on "new installs" and manual partitioning prior to install. But my question today lies an already established Ubuntu system running 10.04 (Lucid) LTS and I will be converting to 12.04 LTS (Precise).
Basically I have two questions. But first, I would love to learn option 2 just to say I have learned it and feel confident with partitioning/installing a new OS when there is an existing /home section on the HDD already.
Basically, my system is configured in this way.
1 TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
1 GB (Boot)
40 GB (Root)
20 GB (Swap) I have 16 GB Ram on Computer) (Originally set it up to be little over equal to the RAM in my computer.)
939 GB (/home) I have a separate partition for /home)
First Question
1) Is it better to "upgrade" from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS and will choosing "upgrade" not mess with my separate /home partition?
Or, is it better to do a manual re-install but not mess with the /home partition during install of 12.04? I know this is possible, but have not had much luck in the past, but I sort of rather do a fresh install, but not mess with my /home partition. I also want to do it this way so I know I can do it, plus /boot and /root sections will be formatted fresh with 12.04. Plus, I would like to shrink my swap space anyways since I don't need it that large and give the extra space to /home since my system does not use much swap and it is nearly useless (that large) with the RAM I have.
I have very little experience using GParted and none with any other partitioning package. I used it once a couple years ago, but I diddn't understand it enough I guess for it to do what I wanted to.
So if you could please, explain to me which is the better or feasible to do option 1. Or if option 1 will accomplish the same goal as option 2. And if It's better to go with option 2, can you please go through the steps and recommendations for accomplishing my goal of a fresh install and not touching /home partition.
Again, thank you so much for you time, I greatly appreciate it.
Bill
I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to help me out of give me advice on this day.
I am a three year user of Ubuntu products, done plenty on "new installs" and manual partitioning prior to install. But my question today lies an already established Ubuntu system running 10.04 (Lucid) LTS and I will be converting to 12.04 LTS (Precise).
Basically I have two questions. But first, I would love to learn option 2 just to say I have learned it and feel confident with partitioning/installing a new OS when there is an existing /home section on the HDD already.
Basically, my system is configured in this way.
1 TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
1 GB (Boot)
40 GB (Root)
20 GB (Swap) I have 16 GB Ram on Computer) (Originally set it up to be little over equal to the RAM in my computer.)
939 GB (/home) I have a separate partition for /home)
First Question
1) Is it better to "upgrade" from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS and will choosing "upgrade" not mess with my separate /home partition?
Or, is it better to do a manual re-install but not mess with the /home partition during install of 12.04? I know this is possible, but have not had much luck in the past, but I sort of rather do a fresh install, but not mess with my /home partition. I also want to do it this way so I know I can do it, plus /boot and /root sections will be formatted fresh with 12.04. Plus, I would like to shrink my swap space anyways since I don't need it that large and give the extra space to /home since my system does not use much swap and it is nearly useless (that large) with the RAM I have.
I have very little experience using GParted and none with any other partitioning package. I used it once a couple years ago, but I diddn't understand it enough I guess for it to do what I wanted to.
So if you could please, explain to me which is the better or feasible to do option 1. Or if option 1 will accomplish the same goal as option 2. And if It's better to go with option 2, can you please go through the steps and recommendations for accomplishing my goal of a fresh install and not touching /home partition.
Again, thank you so much for you time, I greatly appreciate it.
Bill