del wrote:
I am not aware of a Linux tool comparable to "Partition Magic" which allows a partition to be "moved". (But even with PM, the partition is not moved in actuality.)I would now like to remove the 2K partition to regain the space for use for MP3s. Would I be able to have a second "home" so it will not be wiped if I need to re-install at some time, say when I break my machine upgrading to Etch later this year :) 1) How to remove? 2) What to name it to survive a re-install? 3) Is it possible to have a second home? 4) How could I have found the answer myself in the Debian archives to save asking here?5) And Is there a tutorial on looking this kind of thing up in say Google Groups?
Use fdisk or cfdisk to delete the partition, then create a new Linux partition from the resulting free space. Then create a filesystem (ext2 or ext3) in the new partition. Then edit "/etc/fstab" to mount and name the partition. Then reboot.
You can't have two partitions named "home", but you can name a partition whatever you wish, such as "home.backup".
When installing Debian, the partitioner allows you to decide whether to preserve a partition and whether to preserve the data on the partition. But for your purpose, it likely is a better solution to plug in a second drive and place the backup for "home" on the second drive; that way, you are not constrained in your partitioning scheme when you re-install.
RLH