Re: Moving from single to multipartition

[Scarletdown <gsutton9503@wavecable.com>]

Bob Alexander wrote:

> Scarletdown wrote:
>
> > > 2) Copy the old /var, /tmp, /usr and /home data onto the new 
> > > partitions, delete them, copy the rest on the new /
> (... snip ...)
>
> > 7:  Update your /etc/fstab file to mount those new partitions
> >
> > And that is really all there is to it.  Repeat the process with your 
> > other partitions.  When you are certain that everything is working 
> > properly, you can safely delete the old directories off of /
>
>
> Thank you. So if I understand correctly this is a variation of my 
> hypothesis number two. Correct ?
>
> The only thing remaining is how do I correctly move the "old" /hda12 
> root partition to it's new /dev/hda7 correctly recreating devices etc.
That would best be done by running a LiveCD such as Mepis.  When running 
from the CD, your hard drive partitions get mounted under /mnt  
(mnt/hda1, /mnt/hda2, etc.)

So with /hda12 and /hda7 mounted at /mnt/hda12 and /mnt/hda7, you can 
then do:

cp -dpr /mnt/hda12/* /mnt/hda7

After that, you can edit /mnt/hda12/etc/fstab and replace /dev/hda12 
with /dev/hda7, so hda7 gets mounted as your root partition.  And if you 
use LILO, you can use the Mepis Installation Utilities to install LILO 
on /hda7 or your mbr, or however you have it set up.