Re: repartitioning
Randy Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
>
> > a) partition this empty space into a bunch of new partitions and <move> my
> > current system onto it, without completely reinstalling?
>
> As I remember (read: get someone else's opinion to be sure:-) all I did
> was to create the paritions, make file systems on them, copy the appropriate
> subdirectory trees to the various partitions, edit the fstab on the new /
> directory/partition, edit Lilo's config (make sure to be able to boot either
> Linux setup in case one doesn't work) and run Lilo.
I've done this a lot. I also like to install lilo on a diskette first,
just to be sure. Also, you can copy your kernel to a diskette (using dd)
and simply change it's root partition to the new one with rdev.
e.g. to change the kernel on the floppy /dev/fd0 to boot to a new root
partition /dev/hda7, you'd do:
# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda7
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