Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DD> The first issue, do I have a swap partition activated and mounted? DD> When I boot I get the message "activating swap partition" but DD> shouldn't it be in 'etc/mtab', 'proc/mounts', and 'mount -t swap'?
Swap partitions don't get "mounted" the way partitions with filesystems do. '/sbin/swapon -s' will list your swap partitions, and 'free' will show you the total amount of active swap space. DD> Are there commands that I can use to permanently activate and mount DD> partitions without using the rescue disk? You need to edit the /etc/fstab file by hand. You can just copy existing lines and modify them, or see the fstab(5) man page for more information. DD> The second issue, is a separate partition (hda6) which I have DD> allocated the vast majority of my memory space to. This clearly DD> doesn't exist at all. Trying to remedy this, I booted from my DD> rescue disk, activated and mounted hda2 as root, then activated DD> and mounted hda6 as usr2. After exiting the rescue disk and DD> rebooting I did have a 'usr2' directory, but it was located in DD> hda2. DD> When I do this, is it safe to mount hda6 as '/usr' or will this DD> wipe out all the existing data on /usr in hda2? (The solution is DD> to mount hda6 as usr2, 'cp usr usr2', then rename usr2 to usr DD> somehow?) The latter is (almost) the right thing to do. Make sure you use 'cp -a' (or another tool, like tar) to move files between partitions, preserving things like symlinks and permissions. Mounting a different filesystem on /usr will hide anything else that was there before, so you want to: mount /dev/hda6 /usr2 (cd /usr; tar cf - .) | (cd /usr2; tar xpf -) umount /usr2 mount /dev/hda6 /usr (Note that I use tar here instead of cp -a. Either should work.) You'll now have the /dev/hda6 version visible under /usr. If you're convinced that this is complete and works, you can umount /usr, clean out the /dev/hda2 version of /usr, and then re-'mount /dev/hda6 /usr'. Also make sure you update your fstab to show that hda6 should mount on /usr. -- _____________________________ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box." | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_____________________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
