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I went from Windows Vista to Fedora 8, but Fedora just didn't really do it for me. I then went to Suse 10.3 and it really seems like something I ...
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    I went from Windows Vista to Fedora 8, but Fedora just didn't really do it for me. I then went to Suse 10.3 and it really seems like something I will stick with but here is my problem. I have 2 hard drives a 36 GB raptor and an 80 GB standard WD drive. I installed Suse 10.3 on my Raptor drive, since I dont know to much about partitioning with linux yet I left that up to Suse. It installed everything on my Raptor drive like so: 16 GB system partition and 20 GB home partition. This is not really how I would like it because it does not use my 80 GB drive at all. After many hours of reading I still sit in the same place I started. This is how I would like it to look:

    36 GB system drive (all of the raptor drive)
    80 GB home drive (all of the standard drive)

    Of course there are partitions that linux needs and those can be taken from the system drive partition. Can someone please tell me how to make this possible, because I have been having all kinds of trouble with this.

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    You can assign 80GB partition as /home without re-installing. Its pretty easy. Create 80GB ext3 Partition in second drive. Mount it in SuSe and login as root.
    Copy /home folder using copy -a command in new drive/partition.
    Edit /etc/fstab file to mount new /home.
    Code:
    /dev/<partition>  /home  ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
    Save file and reboot machine. If everything works, delete 20GB /home partition of first drive and resize 16GB partition.
    You can use PartedMagic LiveCD to create/delete/resize partitions.
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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