BY THE WAY... The partition on your HOME drive will not bear any label so you just have to remember where each partition on that drive is to be mounted. Its best to go into fdisk and write this stuff down when you first create it because you won't remember to do it later. Print it off and stick it inside the chassis somewhere. Its easy if an entire disk is dedicated to /home.
John - in your comment above - do you mean the numerical start and end points of the partition that fdisk gives you when you run it? Jonathan Hughes Tech Support Specialist Goodyear South Africa
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:33 pm, jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
BY THE WAY... The partition on your HOME drive will not bear any label so you just have to remember where each partition on that drive is to be mounted. Its best to go into fdisk and write this stuff down when you first create it because you won't remember to do it later. Print it off
and
stick it inside the chassis somewhere. Its easy if an entire disk is dedicated to /home.
John - in your comment above - do you mean the numerical start and end points of the partition that fdisk gives you when you run it?
Those won't change, they are recorded in the partition table on the disk, but the mount point is not recorded in the partition table. So you go to install the new system, with one or two partitions on the drive already, and one of them is your /home which you want to save.... But WHICH one is it?!!! All you have to do is remember the order the partitions are sitting on the disk. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Wed, 04 Aug 2004, by jsa@pen.homeip.net:
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:33 pm, jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
BY THE WAY... The partition on your HOME drive will not bear any label so you just have to remember where each partition on that drive is to be mounted. Its best to go into fdisk and write this stuff down when you first create it because you won't remember to do it later. Print it off
and
stick it inside the chassis somewhere. Its easy if an entire disk is dedicated to /home.
John - in your comment above - do you mean the numerical start and end points of the partition that fdisk gives you when you run it?
Those won't change, they are recorded in the partition table on the disk, but the mount point is not recorded in the partition table.
So you go to install the new system, with one or two partitions on the drive already, and one of them is your /home which you want to save.... But WHICH one is it?!!!
mount |lpr #fdisk -l /dev/hd? |lpr df |lpr before re-install For a performance pov it is also best to have the most used partitions on the outside cylinders. So make the swap, /tmp and /var partitions first if you decide to breakup the drive. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.1 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel k_athlon-2.6.4 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +
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