I seem to recall someone saying that if you can't merge partitions (because you want to preserve data, e.g.), you can create a link pointing to the new partition. How does this work exactly? I have deleted an old partition and would like to have that space available to my home directory. What should I do? TIA Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>
* Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca> [Apr 29. 2001 13:54]:
I seem to recall someone saying that if you can't merge partitions (because you want to preserve data, e.g.), you can create a link pointing to the new partition. How does this work exactly? I have deleted an old partition and would like to have that space available to my home directory. What should I do?
Copy you data there and change it in /etc/fstab. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
Hi Mads, let me be more precise. The partitions are not contiguous and I want both of them to be available to /home -- I'm not simply replacing one partition with the other. For the moment I have simply created a mount point on /home/corvinr, which suits me fine, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way of doing it. TIA C On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:47:30PM -0700, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
* Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca> [Apr 29. 2001 13:54]:
I seem to recall someone saying that if you can't merge partitions (because you want to preserve data, e.g.), you can create a link pointing to the new partition. How does this work exactly? I have deleted an old partition and would like to have that space available to my home directory. What should I do?
Copy you data there and change it in /etc/fstab.
-- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:22:32PM -0400, Corvin Russell wrote:
Hi Mads, let me be more precise. The partitions are not contiguous and I want both of them to be available to /home -- I'm not simply replacing one partition with the other. For the moment I have simply created a mount point on /home/corvinr, which suits me fine, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way of doing it.
This is the sort of thing that LVM can be good for. Unfortunately, in order to get it installed and working for your /home partition(s) you'll need to make a backup of your data and reformat the two partitions (I think - I've never actually used LVM before). Have a look into it on the web - it could be what you want. AFAIK, it is not possible to get two 'normal' partitions and treat them as one.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:47:30PM -0700, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
* Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca> [Apr 29. 2001 13:54]:
I seem to recall someone saying that if you can't merge partitions (because you want to preserve data, e.g.), you can create a link pointing to the new partition. How does this work exactly? I have deleted an old partition and would like to have that space available to my home directory. What should I do?
Copy you data there and change it in /etc/fstab.
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