-----Original Message----- From: Derek Fountain [mailto:fountai@hursley.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:16 AM To: SuSE English Subject: Re: [SLE] freespace

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I still have a residual windows partition (shame) though it has remained unused for months (says he in mitigation). Problem is I need to free up some linux disc space quickly. Is it possible to copy eg /var /log //usr/local over to the vfat dos partition and then link them back in from there? Failing that how easy or hard would it be to create a couple or three linux partitions there and move thing's over that way. I don't really have the time for a full re-install (unless I have to - in which case linux can have the whole drive, being a laptop I only have the one) as it took ages to get eg card drivers etc etc up and running (having eventually found them etc etc).

There shouldn't be any problem with creating directories in the vfat partition and linking to them, other than speed (FAT is dog slow compared to ext2).

I do believe he would lose all ext2 file attributes, such as mode, owner, group, etc. I seem to remember that

only root can get write access to a Windows partition, but that shouldn't be a problem for what you're suggesting, and a little while ago someone on here offered a configuration adjustment which sorted it out.

Yes, I believe this just depends on your /etc/fstab.

Better yet though, if you're not worried about losing the Windows partition, why not just run fdisk, set it's type to Linux, make a proper (i.e. ext2) filesystem on it, and mount it?

That would be best. Greg Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/