Re: Help on changing partitioning scheme please
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:50:46PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> I would like to transition from the "monopartition" to one with
> independent /, /home, /var, /tmp and /usr.
>
> Was about to make a mistake by using Partition magic to slice the
> current /dev/hda7 since it would have changed the /dev/hda8 into
> something else and I would not have rebooted ...
>
> What is the proper way to procede ?
Make sure you have a rescue disk that works (e.g. knoppix, rip, tomsrtbt),
and preferably a backup!
I would go ahead and repartition with PM or parted,
and then use the rescue disk to fix everything up.
that might not be the best way, I don't know.
You might like to think about using lvm.
> The /dev/hda5 fat32 partition is quite large and contains most of my
> work related data and also data from Firefox, Thunderbird and Lotus
> Notes. Since this machine from times to times must also work under WinXP
> :( I would like to use this partition in common with the similar Linux
> programs ... is using symbolic links the correct way to handle this ?
yes, I think you could use symlinks to do this.
give it a go and see if it works.
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