PCLOS only gave root 12 gig <SOLVED>

[MCP]

I finally got my new 120gig ssd installed and then allowed PCLOS to just take over the whole volume and install itself.  When it finished I find that the installer allowed 12 gig for root and the rest to /home.  Will this be enough even after I start installing programs?  I thought this is a little lite?

What do you think and recommend I do?

MCP

[Old-Polack]

I finally got my new 120gig ssd installed and then allowed PCLOS to just take over the whole volume and install itself.  When it finished I find that the installer allowed 12 gig for root and the rest to /home.  Will this be enough even after I start installing programs?  I thought this is a little lite?

What do you think and recommend I do?

MCP

Use the Custom partitioning option, Expert mode, and set the partitions up as you want them.

[MCP]

I finally got my new 120gig ssd installed and then allowed PCLOS to just take over the whole volume and install itself.  When it finished I find that the installer allowed 12 gig for root and the rest to /home.  Will this be enough even after I start installing programs?  I thought this is a little lite?

What do you think and recommend I do?

MCP

Use the Custom partitioning option, Expert mode, and set the partitions up as you want them.

That sounds good.  But I've already got it installed.  Are you recommending I reinstall or just shrink one partion and grow the other?

MCP

[Old-Polack]

I finally got my new 120gig ssd installed and then allowed PCLOS to just take over the whole volume and install itself.  When it finished I find that the installer allowed 12 gig for root and the rest to /home.  Will this be enough even after I start installing programs?  I thought this is a little lite?

What do you think and recommend I do?

MCP

Use the Custom partitioning option, Expert mode, and set the partitions up as you want them.

That sounds good.  But I've already got it installed.  Are you recommending I reinstall or just shrink one partion and grow the other?

MCP

If already installed, the shrink one, grow the other, approach is fine, if the two partitions are adjacent.

[MCP]

I finally got my new 120gig ssd installed and then allowed PCLOS to just take over the whole volume and install itself.  When it finished I find that the installer allowed 12 gig for root and the rest to /home.  Will this be enough even after I start installing programs?  I thought this is a little lite?

What do you think and recommend I do?

MCP

Use the Custom partitioning option, Expert mode, and set the partitions up as you want them.

That sounds good.  But I've already got it installed.  Are you recommending I reinstall or just shrink one partion and grow the other?

MCP

If already installed, the shrink one, grow the other, approach is fine, if the two partitions are adjacent.

Thanks I'll go that route. Can you shed some light on another problem?  I've followed all the ways that I've found outlined on the web to copy over my Thunderbird install with all it's settings and I seem to be getting no where.  I end up having to set up all my email accounts which appear as individual accounts in Thunderbird and then when I point the "Local Folders" where I have all of my emails I have another inbox. 

Any idea's on how best to do this?

MCP

[Old-Polack]

Thanks I'll go that route. Can you shed some light on another problem?  I've followed all the ways that I've found outlined on the web to copy over my Thunderbird install with all it's settings and I seem to be getting no where.  I end up having to set up all my email accounts which appear as individual accounts in Thunderbird and then when I point the "Local Folders" where I have all of my emails I have another inbox. 

Any idea's on how best to do this?

MCP

I don't use Thunderbird myself, but those things I do use, I just copy the .<whatever> hidden directory from one installation to the next, or keep a single .<whatever> directory on a separate partition, and replace the new .<whatever> directory with a link to the one shared by all my installations, then when I open the application for the first time, on the new installation, all my settings and preferences are exactly the same as the original installation.

[aguila]

How much space does you / partition occupy? I think 12 gb is plenty for root, maybe not for full monty or debelopment environments, but everything else.... Mine occupies 7.5 gb at the moment, no idea why I gave it 30

[Xenaflux]

I don't use Thunderbird myself, but those things I do use, I just copy the .<whatever> hidden directory from one installation to the next, or keep a single .<whatever> directory on a separate partition, and replace the new .<whatever> directory with a link to the one shared by all my installations, then when I open the application for the first time, on the new installation, all my settings and preferences are exactly the same as the original installation.
Posted on: Today at 08:18:49

It's called .thunderbird ( as in dot-thunderbird )
OP, I think before you copy or link, you have to open the freshly installed Thunderbird once and then exit immediately.
Then I just delete that one (.thunderbird in /home/<name> ) and replace it with my saved .thunderbird.
If I don't open it once as said above, there seems to be some problem.
Now, what I just said was valid more than a year ago, so, I guess it's the same now

Right now I keep my mail in a totally separate partition

@ MCP

I am on a 12Gb / partition now.
--installed pclos2012-2 KDE4
--updated
--installed an extra 41 packages + dependencies
--installed libreoffice
--installed libreoffice clipart

It's now 7.2 Gb full
Hope this helps

[Old-Polack]

I don't use Thunderbird myself, but those things I do use, I just copy the .<whatever> hidden directory from one installation to the next, or keep a single .<whatever> directory on a separate partition, and replace the new .<whatever> directory with a link to the one shared by all my installations, then when I open the application for the first time, on the new installation, all my settings and preferences are exactly the same as the original installation.
Posted on: Today at 08:18:49

It's called .thunderbird ( as in dot-thunderbird )
OP, I think before you copy or link, you have to open the freshly installed Thunderbird once and then exit immediately.
Then I just delete that one (.thunderbird in /home/<name> ) and replace it with my saved .thunderbird.
If I don't open it once as said above, there seems to be some problem.
Now, what I just said was valid more than a year ago, so, I guess it's the same now

Right now I keep my mail in a totally separate partition

Nope! Maybe .mozilla, .purple, .Skype, .pan or .opera, but never .thunderbird. I clearly stated, "I don't use Thunderbird myself." As stated, with all of those that I do use, the .<whatever> directories or files are transferred, by copy or by link, first, before the first time I open the application. In some cases before I even install the application. I've never had a problem with that method.

@ MCP

I am on a 12Gb / partition now.
--installed pclos2012-2 KDE4
--updated
--installed an extra 41 packages + dependencies
--installed libreoffice
--installed libreoffice clipart

It's now 7.2 Gb full
Hope this helps

Then again, I've installed 776 additional packages and my 31G / partition contains 14G, leaving 16G free for processes that need a lot of space. Too big may possibly waste some space, but too small will lock a system solid. Only MCP knows how many packages he might install, and how he will use his system, (what processes he might run) so only he can be the judge of how large a / partition he will feel comfortable with.

[Xenaflux]

but never .thunderbird

Maybe a new pair of glasses and a proper hearing aid will help.

[MCP]

I don't use Thunderbird myself, but those things I do use, I just copy the .<whatever> hidden directory from one installation to the next, or keep a single .<whatever> directory on a separate partition, and replace the new .<whatever> directory with a link to the one shared by all my installations, then when I open the application for the first time, on the new installation, all my settings and preferences are exactly the same as the original installation.
Posted on: Today at 08:18:49

It's called .thunderbird ( as in dot-thunderbird )
OP, I think before you copy or link, you have to open the freshly installed Thunderbird once and then exit immediately.
Then I just delete that one (.thunderbird in /home/<name> ) and replace it with my saved .thunderbird.
If I don't open it once as said above, there seems to be some problem.
Now, what I just said was valid more than a year ago, so, I guess it's the same now

Right now I keep my mail in a totally separate partition

@ MCP

I am on a 12Gb / partition now.
--installed pclos2012-2 KDE4
--updated
--installed an extra 41 packages + dependencies
--installed libreoffice
--installed libreoffice clipart

It's now 7.2 Gb full
Hope this helps

First I want to Thank everyone for you help.  I never thought of just copying over the hidden directory.  Now that I've done it, it does appear to have brought over everything.  But even though it has all of my sub-directories and email filters, it hasn't displayed any emails and it has an activity indicator spinning at the top showing that it is working.  Did I do something wrong?  Any Idea's on how to correct?

Also I checked the size of my root on my previous install and noticed that even though I had given it 25 gig it only uses about 7.5.  So it appears that 12 should be plenty.

MCP

[Old-Polack]

MCP:

Is the spinning indicator possibly telling you the copying is still ongoing?

[MCP]

MCP:

Is the spinning indicator possibly telling you the copying is still ongoing?

I would think that is the case except, long ago I set up Thunderbird to use a folder on another drive so I could share my emails with Windows as well as other distro's.  It shouldn't have to copy anything unless I'm mistaken.

MCP

[Xenaflux]

  I never thought of just copying over the hidden directory. ................. and it has an activity indicator spinning at the top showing that it is working.  Did I do something wrong?  Any Idea's on how to correct?

MCP

note: this is just my fantasy working. Beware !
Maybe deleting the ( original ) .thunderbird and replacing it

is not the same as

over-writing the original one with the saved one ( saved=the one you need to have )

as I said....my fantasy

[Old-Polack]

MCP:

Is the spinning indicator possibly telling you the copying is still ongoing?

I would think that is the case except, long ago I set up Thunderbird to use a folder on another drive so I could share my emails with Windows as well as other distro's.  It shouldn't have to copy anything unless I'm mistaken.

MCP

That's basically what I do, using a link, when the partition with the folders to be shared is on the same hard drive. If the data to be shared is on a separate drive, then I copy it to the new installation. Every so often I sync the copy with the original using rsync so any new additions get placed on the original as well.