Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Anders Dahlqvist <dahlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2002-06-15 12.58 skrev twopinkblobs@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> Hi,
>
>    Is there an easy and safe method of removing windoze from a second hard
> disc and then rearranging the drives? Windows is on hda and SuSE 7.3 is on
> hdb and I would really like to dump windows completely and then have 7.3 as
> hda and the windows drive as a backup etc. as hdb. I have looked at Yast
> and haven't found anything that I can readily understand, I have only been
> a Linux user for 6 months, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Ayers
Assuming (just an example, Helge!)) that you have /windows mounted on 
/dev/hdb1 (check with the command "mount") and instead want /data as a reiser 
file-system on /dev/hdb1 instead.
As root:
1. umount /windows
2. rmdir /windows
3. mkdir /data
4. mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1
5. edit /etc/fstab (if you don't know the vi editor run the program "vimtutor" 
NOW; it will teach you how to use vi in 40 minutes) so that the line that 
looked something  like this:
/dev/hdb1       /windows                   vfat        user,umask=0000   0   0
looks like:
/dev/hdb1       /data                  reiserfs       defaults 1 2
(It doesn't have to be tabs between the words, spaces will do.)
6. mount -a

Done! No need to reboot, upgrade to SuSE Servicepack 12p or anything suchlike. 
Isn't UNIX marvellous?

Anders
-- 
Heavy, adj.:
	Seduced by the chocolate side of the force.