More space for the PC

After increasing the RAM (say it with much more spectacular results in XP to Linux, where only significant improvements in video playback), another of the shortages is maquinón our little storage space because of the 3 4 GB available to the record of 701 SSD are disappearing easily after any installation of a Linux distro conditions. But the truth is that when we do not want to give up the latest version of Firefox or OpenOffice have to shelve the fabulous-but-limited Xandros original and seriously consider installing something else (in my case, I leaned on the first Mandriva 2009 , later replaced by Eeebuntu Base 2.0 as a fundamental pillar of system built to suit my needs). The possibilities of increasing the space available after installing a distro "serious" are several, but one which I thought was more attractive to move around the home directory to an SDHC card (in my case, 4 GB, for just over 10 euros ). In this way (in addition to a new and more storage space for our files, while an interesting free disk SSD), plus we can always count on a backup, complete and removable, our home. Let's do this ... As always, there are infinite online tutorials which explain, with varying degrees of success, more simple or more complicated to obtain our goal. If in doubt, always prefer to choose the methods simple and well explained, so I decided on the detailed below: You must keep their programs that are (unless they are also in the Startup folder). Otherwise, move your home folder is quite easy. This is done using all of the console (it is the easiest way to explain). First, you want to find the / dev name of your SDHC card. This is most likely / dev / sdb (Gnome Partition Manager will tell you for sure. Sudo mkdir / mnt / SDHC sudo mount / dev/sdb1 / mnt / SDHC mount this partition 1 SDHC card in the folder. If your SDHC a / dev / name, use the previous example. Now, we are removing the folders in your current card SDHC. RVF-rm / mnt / SDHC / * If the above code gives a permission denied error, use this command (you can use if you want anyway, but it is not necessary): sudo chown-R yourusername: users / mnt / SDHC Replace "yourusername" with your username now do the following command: Purva-cp / home / * / mnt / SDHC once completed, use this command: sudo echo / dev/sdb1 / home auto defaults, noatime 0 2>> / etc / fstab test to make sure your / etc / fstab is configured properly: cd / sudo mount / home sudo umount / home if you get an error, do not complete the last step finally clean up the old home directory and mount your SDHC card in place. RVF-sudo rm / home / * sudo mount / home ! ¡Ready your home you have all the files stored on your SDHC and space that have released their sdd.