On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:25:38AM +0530, suman wrote: > 2) Merge the partitions.(is there a way to do this without touching the > data?)
resize_reiserfs can do this if trailing free space exists. Do read the man page. You might want to backup at least /home /var/mail and /etc and printouts of fdisk -l and /etc/fstab. > > I intend to do 1,but i am wondering if there are any other solutions. maybe get a larger disk ;) > Also, is there a performance hit because of softlinking across partitions? Creating partitions is always a performance hit. I doubt following an extra symlink a few times will be noticeable. > > I plan to do the following things: > 1) unmount the windows partion > 2) use fdisk to mark the partition as linux ( 83 hex code) > 3) use mkreiserfs to format it > 4) change /etc/fstab to make change file system type > 5) mount it > 6) copy the files to the new partitions > 7)create softlinks > 8) Test by running a few programs and remove duplicated directories. should work great -im ----------------------------------------------- Next Meeting as on our Website: http://ilughyd.org.in ----------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilughyd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
