Hi Chris
Thanks for the info. How do I work out what I want to keep? I am
positive I will miss something if I do it manually
I have installed heaps of software on this machine and it would take
ages to workout exactly all the files I have installed. I do not want
to have to install all that software again and configure it all. What I
would like to do somehow is to backup say all of
/usr
and then just plonk it down on the new machine. I would like to do
this with all the other file systems as well(which are not really other
file systems at the moment), ie
/opt
/bin
/lib
/sbin
/var(?)
Thoughts
cheers
Tony
Christoph Hammann wrote:
>
> Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 schrieb Antony Stace:
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > I have a linux machine which has one partition on it. There is a lot of
> > software on it. What I want to do is repartition the hardrive into a
> > couple of partitions(I want advice as to how many)
> Hello Antony!
>
> For information on a possible partition scheme i include the output of "df" for
> my computer (couldn't be bothered to umount partitions for a "fdisk"):
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5 1536940 1352580 184360 88% /
> /dev/sda6 3584876 2770380 814496 77% /usr
> /dev/sda2 2048956 122080 1926876 6% /var
> /dev/sda7 1633192 647524 985668 40% /home
> /dev/sda1 20803 2665 17064 14% /boot
>
> Then there's /dev/sda3, that's swap (double the RAM) and /dev/sda4, that's a
> DOS extended partition containing sda 5 through 7. BTW, those and /var are
> formatted reiserfs, and I really like this! I'm just sorry /boot had to remain
> on ext2 for lilo to be able to boot it.
> As you can see, sda5 is a bit too small (or I'll have to clean out core files
> soon...) and sda2 seems much too big, but it isn't because there's a growing
> MySQL database on it.
> On the whole, I'm quite content with this partition scheme and not about to
> change it. But YM(and your needs)MV.
>
> Now how do you go about it? Back up everything you want to keep to tape or burn
> a CDROM, wipe the disk clean (with Linux fdisk or Partition Magic from either
> of the both OSes the last time you run them in that configuration) and
> repartition at the same time (better check that the backup works before you do
> that...). Reboot, install as little MS-ish software as you need, install Linux,
> configure lilo (make boot diskettes to be sure), copy back everything from the
> backup, reboot, see it work out fine, relax ;-)
>
> Bye now, Christoph
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Tony
> >
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> > and put Windows 98 on
> > one partition and my exisiting Linux on the other ones. What is the
> > best way to go about this?
>
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