Re: New HD advice
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:43:03AM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> 1. What would be an sane, effective way of setting things up, i.e.
> move /local, /var, others to their own places?
You could do, but if the drive is faulty, or fails, that would
really help having partitions on the drive.
> 2. Is it better for the swap to be on a different drive? If so, how does one
> move it?
It makes no odds, if you ask me.
> I have partionmagic on the windows and qparted on linux at my disposal. Thanks
> for any advice.
You might find the following of use to you:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother
Although personally, I would just use cfdisk and mke2fs to do it.
-- Thomas Adam
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