From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rei Shinozuka Subject: Re: partitioning drive Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:10:55 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040323131055.GA13194@panix.com> References: <20040323130248.GA10357@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040323130248.GA10357@panix.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Newbie Linux Users by the way, i backed up the system using mondoarchive. also, the reason i'd rather not reinstall from scratch is that there an all-in-wonder video card, and other various drivers installed and working perfectly now. i am fairly certain i would blow at least a weekend reinstalling all of that and getting it to work (and weekends are hard to come by with a 2, 5, and 6-year old running about). thanks again! -rei On Mar23 08:02, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > > i was just delivered a lovely preinstalled system. > > [root@tuxedo shino]# uname -a > Linux tuxedo 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > the only > problem is that it has only one data partition. what i'd > really like is 5-6 partitions something like: > > / > /home > /local > /data > /boot2 > /swap > > what's my best best to make this happen? fips? fdisk? > disk druid? something on the fedora install disks? > > this is what it looks like now. > > [root@tuxedo shino]# df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 190140 7085 173397 4% / > /dev/hda1 99 7 88 7% /boot > none 505 0 505 0% /dev/shm > > ~ $ cat /etc/fstab > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > > thanks so kindly in advance! > > -rei > > > > -- > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com > Ridgewood, New Jersey > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs