From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: partitioning drive Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:56:35 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40604213.3020203@gelm.net> References: <20040323130248.GA10357@panix.com> <20040323131055.GA13194@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040323131055.GA13194@panix.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Newbie Linux Users Rei Shinozuka wrote: >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 >> You already have '/swap' and the only other default partition mentioned is '/home'. Would you be willing to add another hard drive and create on it /home, /local, /data, /boot2; mount /dev/home-on-new-disk /home-on-new-disk cp -R /home /home-on-new-disk; edit your /etc/fstab to mount /dev/home-on-new-disk as /home; reboot ? HTH, Chuck >> >>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 >> >> - 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