On 8/24/06, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote: > You can try resizing your partition but it might just screw up your > system :P Resizing is not a good idea because I got important data on the other drives. Risk Management , well I don't mind breaking the M$ partition [/dev/hda1] there is nothing there except ten.BV all My Documents are on /dev/hda2. Here are the issues that I foresee -> Would just copying the fs from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hda1 and then changing the kernel parameter work ??
In all kinds of Redhat & Fedora systems, while installing the OS, its create paritions as primary or LVM and puts a label for it even. The kernel boots just using the Label and not the direct partition. I meen /root , /media, /var as you
say are mount points , so do they have to be registered ?? ->/dev/hda5 8498+ 9728 1231- 9887976 8e Linux LVM the partition was created during installation and if I just format /dev/hda1 as ext3 and create the file structure there would it be alrite , how would the OS react to that ?
What you can do, to try whether this works is. Format ur M$ . Be sure that GRUB is what booting ur system. Copy ur /dev/hda5 files directly into /dev/hda1. now, in grub, edit the line, remove the "LABEL=" option and put the device /dev/hda1 and try booting. and BTB, which is ur boot parition?. or are u booting GNU/Linux thru NTLDR (M$ Bootloader)? Try it on ur own risk.. This is an option to just try. do it if u know how to recover or get out if u do any wrong.
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