From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([66.92.170.139]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTs7U-00067T-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:59:13 -0400 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j461x6v9010517 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 May 2005 21:59:06 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j461x66w010516; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:59:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 21:59:06 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050506015906.GJ8018@rednote.net> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20050506005023.GG8018@rednote.net> <03b001c551da$06bce410$6a00a8c0@desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03b001c551da$06bce410$6a00a8c0@desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.10-1.770_FC3spksmp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: re-installing Debian X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 01:59:14 -0000 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" > To: "Glenn at home" ; "Speakup is a screen review > system for Linux." > 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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@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@freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.