OK I have stuffed up I had an old 80g hd hanging around so I bought an external hd to plug it into the computer via the USB as a removable hd.
Anyway I went to partitions within mandrake config selected - it had hda and sda, so on the sda I selected create as ext3 It appears to have moved the usr directory to the sda and made the sda the the device boot I am using mandrake 10 now how do I move the usr directory back ? some results from the system cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2431 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1104 8867848+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 1105 2432 10663370 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1105 1550 3582463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1551 1581 248976 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 1582 2432 6831836 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2549 20474811 83 Linux Andrew D -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
