-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 June 2003 22:45, Bob S. wrote:

Subject: Re: [SLE] Install/Partioning Help Date: Friday 06 June 2003 23:14 From: Bob Stia To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

On Friday 06 June 2003 05:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The 03.06.06 at 02:20, Bob S. wrote:

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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 ! )

You have to go into manual or expert mode, and select the partitions you want it to use and/or create. The automated mode is just installing a new system on a new partition.

Yes Carlos, Thanks for replying. I was in manual mode. In the first paragraph of my original post that is evidenced by my original drives. That is why I am asking these questions. I need to understand what it is that Yast will do when I select to change those options.

I think that you have misunderstood what I am asking. If you have the time and inclination to assist me, I ask that you please re-read the original post.

If you or anyone else wants to help I have included the orinal post at the bottom of this message.

Thanks anyway, for at least replying. 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.

Bob S.

You don't want to alter your / root partition unless you are sure that the new / root partition is valid. If you decide to do so, you will also have to alter your grub configuration. I didn't notice a specific /boot filesystem in your prvious message, thus the /boot filesystem is contained within your "/" partition. i.e..../boot actually is a physical description of two structures "/" and "boot" I would just alter the hdb9 partition to show the new mountpoint of /home. This won't break your box. Even with it set as /home the root account will still be able to login. The $HOME variable is set in /etc/passwd. You will just need to copy the users $HOME files from hdb1 to hdb9. Now upon reboot, the system will mount your new /home. I may have missed something in this all, everyone feel free to make any comments regarding my mistakes. BTW, i use LVM extensively. It allows you to alter the filesystem structures as they develop. I make 1GB partitions on both hda and hdb. I've got some 30 odd LVM partitions to work with throughout my system. Love it!!!!! ;) - -- Thomas Jones Linux-Howtos Network Administrator OpenGPG Key: 0x6A3DF6E9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4eQxQT2komo99ukRAmiuAJ9V+7s5HIZmD9x5qxlJWNhTuv2KrACgrJeW sMygFIvMFqyvcoLXSyuExXg= =ZNH7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----