I think Drook's plan to have a /home makes sense. And AFAIK having a /swap makes sense too (IIRC, it treats it different than a normal file system on a norlam partition).
Stretching/shrinking partitions in Linux isn't problematic any more AFAIK. I've only had troubles when doing fresh partitioning on a disk with Winders already in place and when I needed to shrink the Winders partition.
Of course, a full wipe and install is the absolute best way to do it, but unless you have a fast backup/restore path (and USB2 on an old laptop isn't that), then it can be very painful.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
Stretching/shrinking partitions in Linux isn't problematic any more AFAIK. I've only had troubles when doing fresh partitioning on a disk with Winders already in place and when I needed to shrink the Winders partition.
Of course, a full wipe and install is the absolute best way to do it, but unless you have a fast backup/restore path (and USB2 on an old laptop isn't that), then it can be very painful.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.