Today I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop running Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. The object of the day is to end up with it running 7.10. Since 8.04 is released in a few weeks, I'm intending just to do an upgrade, not a complete rebuild.
The story so far:
Problem 1:
The software updater has been telling me for months that the upgrade is available, but that there isn't enough space on the root partition to put the files needed to upgrade. Fine, no problem, I'll repartition.
Problem 2:
Not being particularly confident with partitioning, I decide to do a complete backup of my home directory onto DVD+R. Several days ago I ordered some DVDs and they have now arrived. So, how to burn DVDs. The Ubuntu Forums suggest Gnomebaker so I download it and try to burn a DVD. It won't burn because of problems with the number of levels of embedded directories (see thread). I download K3B and try again. It all works fine.
Repartitioning:
I have a livecd of GParted.
The extended partition that Ubuntu lives on currently has a 4GB ext3 (I think) partition for /, followed by a swap partition, followed by a 60GB or so /home partition. In order to upgrade, I need to move and resize /home, move the swap partition and increase the size of / to about 10GB, to allow for future upgrades etc.
Here goes.
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