Linux-Misc Digest #971, Volume #25 Sun, 8 Oct 00 03:13:03 EDT
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Re: renaming mount points ("David ..")
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: renaming mount points
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:19:53 -0500
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> A while ago I used to have Win98 on my /dev/hda1 which of course
> used a FAT (FAT32 to be precise) file system. After booting just
> a few times into Win98 I was staring to experience more and more
> crashes and more and more missing .vxd files, corrupted files,
> illegal operations performed by program etc... until I got really
> sick of it and formatted C:. But unfortunately I still have a few
> devices that need to run under Windows until support for them is
> available under Linux. So I installed Win2K which has not crashed
> so far and uses NTFS (no more DOS). While Linux still feels much
> faster and richer with application and networking functionality
> as well as support for different platforms I think that Win2K
> is an improvement over Win98 although it's still a little too
> slow and there's too much GUI overhead.
>
> Anyway, back to my question. I now have a /dos mount point for
> /dev/hda1 left over from Win98. /dos seems to be the conventional
> and preferred name for a mount point for a FAT partition. But
> now I don't have any DOS there any more and I would like to
> rename my mount point /nt or something like that (any suggestions?)
> but I remember last time I renamed a mount point I created some
> havoc somehow. So, how can I rename /dos without messing things
> up? (BTW, everything works fine except that I don't like calling
> an ntfs dos when it's not).
You should be able to unmount it then use fdisk and change the type (not
the size) to a linux type 83 or 82 partition depending what you want to
use it for. Then format it to linux and then mount it. Edit
/etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and then /sbin/lilo to update the MBR.
You shouldn't have any problems as long as you update the MBR after the
change.
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