THANKS again for all your help, Marius! Lots of great info to digest....
Mark on 3/24/08 3:35 PM, Marius Meinert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Marius Meinert wrote: >> I got an idea regarding your partitioning system, but I didn't test >> this out, so just see it as a concept and read it carefully before >> using this way. Or even better, wait for replies if it works and don't >> use it^^. >> If you want to have a fewer amount of partitions without >> reinstalling debian, you might copy the >> data of one partition onto root (/) and the delete this one, don't >> forget to delete the partition from your fstab after that. >> If you want to move your /usr to / for example, you would just insert >> a livecd, so that your system can use an own /usr and then mount >> your /. Then you would create a directory on that partition called >> usr. After that just copy over all data from the /usr partition to the >> usr in /. >> mkdir /mnt/debianroot >> mkdir /mnt/debianusr >> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/debianroot >> mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/debianusr >> mkdir /mnt/debianroot/usr >> cp /mnt/debianusr/* /mnt/debianroot/usr/ >> fdisk /dev/hda >> d >> 5 >> w >> q >> nano /mnt/debianroot/etc/fstab >> remove the line /dev/hda5... >> reboot > > I've tested this out in a VM with debian etch and the lfs live cd. I > created /dev/hda1 as / and /dev/hda5 as /usr. > The above command listing seems to work for this setup, although it > needs some changes. You don't have to create the usr directory on /, > as it is already there. When you copy the data from the hda5 usr to > the hda1(hda2 in your case) /usr, you have to add the -r argument to > the cp command. This argument causes cp to recursively copy data, so > that it also copies directories. > Once you settled over some partitions to your main root partition you > might want to maximize this one, otherwise you would have as much > space available for your whole debian system as you had for the / > partition before. > Maximizing should work with the partitioning tool cfdisk, but I > haven't ever done this, so I can't help you out here. Remember that > the blocks on a hard drive are ordered linear, this means, you can > only maximize a partition, if there are free blocks following the > partition you want to maximize. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
