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



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