Tom Eastman wrote:
>
> I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer.
>
> Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda.
>
> How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have to
>tell that the hard drive is now in a different place?
Only /etc/fstab. This contains all the mapping of the real
partitions to /, swap, mount points.
But the problem is that /etc/fstab must be altered to the new
configuration before you do the first boot as hda - one way this can
be achieved is by pre-altering /etc/fstab while still booted as hdd
(the system will not mind unless you are running kdf which will show
both a hybrid of the old and new arrangements and can be ignored),
but you had better save a backup of /etc/fstab and get the new
partition mappings exactly completely correct!
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
