I ended up finding some spare place to store an interim / partition, modified /etc/fstab to allow booting in that partition and mounting of the original / in /mnt/spare.
Thing to watch out for: since grub looks for its config file on the original /, one should really carry out the entire migration in one session. However, even with no services running, fdisk told me it couldn't reload the partition table, so I had to reboot with a rescue disk (the RH installation cd #1, just type linux rescue at the prompt), and only then remount the new / and copy to it the contents of the interim /. Finally, I wondered why I had a kernel panic, and after some searching found that RH had once autonomously given a name to the original / partition; the label was / (I know, this is confusing). So once I realized that and issued "e2label /dev/hda5 /", the thing was solved. I guess I would have had less trouble using parted after having booted with the rescue disc... Arie ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
