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from thelma@×××××××××××.com: |
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> Manual approach might be confusing and prone to errors. |
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> I will try Gparted as you suggested but I was wondering if it will allow |
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> me to combine/join partitions. On most modern system I think there is: |
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> 1 - boot partiton |
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> 2 - swap if needed |
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> 3 - root partition (where home is as well) |
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> My current layout is old one: |
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> dev/sda1 /boot ext2 |
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> /dev/sda3 / ext4 |
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> /dev/sda2 none swap |
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> /dev/sda4 /home ext4 |
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> Is it possible with Gparted combine "/" and "home" partitions, or is it |
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> as simple as coping all file from "home" partition to "/" home folder. |
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I never used parted or gparted, but prefer to put "home" in a different partition. |
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That way, if you mess up or otherwise have to reformat the root partition, home is unaffected. |
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Also, you can access the same home partition from more than one OS installation that can read/write the file system, in this case ext2 or ext4. |
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Tom |
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