On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tom Bernett wrote about, Re: Resizing Disk Partitions.:
> Richard;
>
> Thanks for the quick response, but this newbie still has questions.
>
> Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tom Bernett wrote about, Resizing Disk Partitions.:
> > > Hi List;
>>
> Well, I don't know enough about linux partitions and what's in them. I
> figured booting with a floppy would be the safest. Are you saying all
> but / can be copied in total just like a hpfs or fat data partition?
> Eg. can I just copy hda8 (/usr) to hdb temporarily, delete hda8,
> recreate hda8 where/how big I want it, mkfs it, and copy /usr from hdb
> back to hda8. If so, I guess I just didn't expect it to be that easy
> :o] Also, can the swap partition be deleted while booted off the hard
> disk?
directorys such as /proc cannot be copied because they are not realy there,
they are virtual and held in memory.
/usr should be ok tho. read the man page for cp or mv, a beter way is to
use tar to archive the whole lot.
>
> Would that also work with / ?
Yes for most things, be carefull with symlinks tho.
I belive Ray has done that sort of thing personaly, i arrange mu partitions
in such a mannor that i can reuse them after installimng another distro,
and use the same partitions like /home /usr/src /usr/local/src on all
distros'. i wrote a message about that yesterday.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Tom
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