On 04/07/10 12:50, Saxon Landers wrote:
> I was advised against doing so on the IRC channel, so as to save space,
> etc.

If someone on IRC advised you to stick your finger in a fire, would you 
do it?

> There is no reason as to why i cannot use a partition, however i am
> not exactly comfortable at setting up partition tables,

Just use cfdisk. Learning to partition your drives is (in my opinion) an 
important part of the LFS learning experience.

> and i want to
> avoid (if possible) rebuilding the entire system, as no doubt i would
> have to do if i re-partitioned the drive.

So use tar to make a copy of what you have. As root

cd /mnt
tar caf lfs.tar.bz2 lfs
umount /mnt/lfs
cfdisk /dev/sdb
# Format the drive with your chosen filesystem
# For me that would be
mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/lfs
tar xf lfs.tar.bz2

You'll need to fix grub as it's files will have moved

Andy
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