Hi,
It doesn't offend me. If you have Partition Magic or if you are willing to buy
it, it's sure the easiest solution. I've heard that the newest version also
supports ext2fs. However I ve done it sucessfully many times the other way.
Cu.,
Franky X.
> Hi All,
>
> Hope this doesn't offend every one. Sometimes its worth using a commercial
app.
> Partition Magic by PwerQuest can resize your partitions with out data loss
> (supposedly).
> I've used it many times on Windoz machines with out loss. It does recognize
ext2
> partitions, so it should work fine.
>
> Stuart Wood
>
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> From: Frank Schmalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 9:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Switching /home and /root
>
> Hi again,
> may be I got you wrong the first time, eh?
> You really wan't to switch the partitions?
> >
> > I've got a partitioning question.
> >
> > I configured my system with a 2GB /home partition and a 500MB "/"
> > partition. My /root is on the "/" partition, and it's getting a bit
> > crowded. Can I rdev the root partition (/hda8) to the /home partition
> > (/hda5) without losing any data on either? Alternatively, can I make a
> > symlink on the root partition named /root, that leads to somewhere on
> > /home, or will that cause weird errors.
> >
> > Info: RedHat 5.1, 3.0.35, KDE on XFree86.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Hmmm,
> ok. for a complete switch... expecting you have enough space to hold all the
> data of / and /home on your home partition you can try the following.
> secure way :
> create a home directory on your home partition mkdir /home/home
> move your files in /home to /home/home
> copy your complete / partiton to the home partition use the right cp options
> something like -dpR and there must be one for one filesystem..
> if you look in /home you should see something like
> . .. /bin /etc /dev /boot /var /usr .........
> go to /home/etc and change the entrys in fdisk for / to /dev/hda? your home
part
> uncomment the entry for you home partition.
> you can rdev the vmlinuz file in your /home/ directory to the devname of your
> home partition now.
> further steps depend on the way you usually boot your system lilo ? bootable
> flag?
>
> thats just a raw painting of how I would do it. Hope this helps.
>
> Cu,
> Franky X.
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