Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Ridge Chittenden wrote:

> --- Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>  
>
> > Ridge Chittenden wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Now, I want to recombine the partitions into one, big chunk.
> > >
> > > This would be a pretty straightforward use of parted, I assume, but here's the rub: For some reason, the
> > > Debian installer put / on /dev/hda1 and /usr on
> > > /dev/hda3. If I just delete /dev/hda3, I'll destroy
> > > /usr, right? That, I presume, would be bad. 
> > >
> > > So how to I handle this?
> > The installer apparently saw the two 60GB partitions
> > and used them both; 
> > one for / and one for /usr.
> >
> > You'll need to copy the /usr files over to the first
> > partition.
> >
> > # init 1
> > # umount /usr
> > # mkdir /oldusr
> > # mount /dev/hda3 /olduser
> > # cp -a /olduser/* /usr
> > # [edit /etc/fstab and comment out or delete the
> > /dev/hda3 line]
> > # init 2
> >    
>
> Thanks Kent. This looks like what I need to do. A
> quick question: What's the reason for going into
> single-user mode?
So that no files on /usr are in use. You won't be able to unmount /usr 
otherwise.

> I ask because this machine has
> neither keyboard nor monitor, and I usually ssh into
> it. init 1 drops my ssh connection.
>
> (Thinking out loud: Perhaps this is a good time to
> boot with a live CD--assuming it enables sshd--since I
> expect I'll need to not be running off /dev/hda at all
> to edit the partition table...)
>  
That should be a workable solution.

--
Kent