-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/27/07 19:00, Mitchell Verter wrote: [snip] > I bought the laptop with Debian installed, so I know little about > it. I don't think there is much data on it and I probably don't > care about keeping old data, just preserving important system > files, programs, executables, etc.
Those are the *last* things you need to preserve, since you can easily get new ones by reinstalling Debian. It's your data that's most important. > Is there a good way to find out where on the disk the data is > written, so that you can be sure that your intended partition is > empty of anything important? Is there a way to consolidate data > to one area of the disk? The df(1) command. Here's what my home system looks like. $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 19228308 11600360 6651196 64% / tmpfs 517956 0 517956 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10240 80 10160 1% /dev tmpfs 517956 8 517948 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 45130 20397 22325 48% /boot /dev/hda4 201859276 173816472 17788920 91% /data/01 /dev/hda3 19228308 12327092 5924464 68% /home /dev/sda1 288451264 114423808 159374972 42% /data/02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFu//fS9HxQb37XmcRAhVBAKCOEX+pCfhYbNRakfnA2PORVCS1twCfWiyc CS2NYggadjNYaNzoD4bghbg= =EsJI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
