On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:20:52 -0400
"Bob S."
Hello Suse People,
Doing a fresh install of 8.2 over 8.0. (Personal) Want to change some of my partitions around some. No size changes. Have some questions at the partitioning screen. I am somewhat familiar with hard drive partioning.
The drive is hdb. ( 30 gigs) This was the 8.0 setup. hdb1 = /, hdb2 =extended, hdb3 =/usr, hdb5 =/newlinux, hdb6 =swap, hdb7=fat32, hdb8 =/data.
Now at the partioning screen Yast suggests/has added another logical partion, hdb9 =/ which is 1.9 gigs. Don't know where it got it from and is scheduled to be formatted. NONE... of the other drives, regular or logical will be formatted. Don't understand this because hdb1 was the original / . Does this mean that all of the old boot stuff from / will remain? Will hdb3 =usr remain?? ( can't be ! )
The reason for the repartitioning is that I would like to create a /home partition
I do NOT want Yast to touch /newlinux or /data but would like to change them from ext2 to ext3. Would that cause data loss with that change?
I am thinking accept hdb9 =/ as suggested by Yast even though it is only 1.9 gigs,( worry about var, opt, etc.) and then format the original hdb1 from / to /home.
Or, would it be better to format the original hdb1 and reuse it? ( 4.5
gigs) Then use the newfound hdb9 for something else. I would like my /home partition to be bigger than 1.9 gigs though.
PLEASE !! Correct my thinking if I am wrong!
I could also create an LVM / LVM's? But I have no idea about that. Can anyone direct me to the "Administration Guide"
Hope that some partitioning guru will give me some advice here. YaST will not touch your /newlinux or /data filesystems as long as you do not mark them as format.
Then after you install and everything is working, then convert any
existing ext2 filesystem to ext3. Here are the steps (make sure you look
at the man page for tune2fs).
1. unmount the affected filesystems.
2. Use tune2fs with the -j option to convert to ext3.
3. update the fstab to reflect that these are ext3 filesystems.
Then, the next time you mount those, they will come up as ext3.
I'm going to avoid LVM because that is more involved.
WRT:/hdb3=/usr.
When you upgrade from one release to another, the new system files are
updated. This includes /usr. Assuming you do a clean install, you should
have the /usr file system formatted. If you are doing an upgrade
install, that is not necessary.
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Jerry Feldman