OK.... I believe that Linux is finally ready for prime time - been putzing with it for years off and on and I've learned to genuinely dislike Vista so I deleted my Vista partition today. I have two drives in my system - 250 GB each - with Vista dedicated to one and the other is dedicated to your OS. My problem is that I somehow filled the Mint drive - believe I have too much tied up in VMWare Server. With Vista gone I now have an empty drive sitting there waiting to be filled. What would be the best way to utilize the other drive? Should I move my home folder there? Can I? How? Or should I move VMWare there? Can I? How? Or should I do something entirely different? I've been using your OS for a few weeks now and have it pretty well set up so I'd hate to do a re-install. Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
BTW... I don't care about room for other distros or Windows. I have VMWare Server to play with those....
Leon
Moving VM Server to different drive?
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Moving VM Server to different drive?
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Thank you for the vary complete answer. I am constantly amazed at how helpful some of you can be at times. I DO tend to ramble on... sorry so I'll limit myself to one thing.
For now I have created an 40GB fat32 primary partition on the empty drive- just in case - and the rest is an extended logical partition formated as ext3. For now I will try to just move my home directory to this new partition. How do I move it and let the system know that I've moved it? Hope I'm not confusing you. One of us is enough...
Thanx!
For now I have created an 40GB fat32 primary partition on the empty drive- just in case - and the rest is an extended logical partition formated as ext3. For now I will try to just move my home directory to this new partition. How do I move it and let the system know that I've moved it? Hope I'm not confusing you. One of us is enough...
Thanx!
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... _partitionlger wrote:For now I will try to just move my home directory to this new partition. How do I move it and let the system know that I've moved it?
Thanks guys! Worked like a charm. Now off to my next Mint Linux adventure....
BTW: scorp. I know that you have a thing about people searching for answers before posting. I usually don't post because I agree with you. Most questions have already been answered. Thank you for the link. I just wasn't sure what to do.
gcc: You are a gentleman and a scholar... Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate the very well thought out and detailed answers. Someday I may be able to help others because with responses like this I learn.
BTW: scorp. I know that you have a thing about people searching for answers before posting. I usually don't post because I agree with you. Most questions have already been answered. Thank you for the link. I just wasn't sure what to do.
gcc: You are a gentleman and a scholar... Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate the very well thought out and detailed answers. Someday I may be able to help others because with responses like this I learn.
Worked like a charm. Freed up half of my full drive and that was exactly what I wanted to do. Wasn't sure what would be the right choice - moving /home or vmware - but with your help ended up making the right choice. Thanks again my friend!