On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:10, Thomas Jones wrote:
On Friday 06 June 2003 22:45, Bob S. wrote:
Subject: Re: [SLE] Install/Partioning Help
On Friday 06 June 2003 05:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.06.06 at 02:20, Bob S. wrote:
Now at the partioning screen Yast suggests/has added another ................., snip a whole bunch of stuff>......
You don't want to alter your / root partition unless you are sure that the new / root partition is valid.
First of all, thanks for replying Thomas Now, that is what Yast wants to do, alter it, Instead of reusing / which is the original hdb1 it suggests a new hdb9 for /
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.
Correct
i.e..../boot actually is a physical description of two structures "/" and "boot"
Also correct
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.
Not sure that I understand that. You mean that hdb9 will be /, /boot, and /home ??? As well as /var, /opt, etc. etc. ??
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.
As per my question above?
I may have missed something in this all, everyone feel free to make any comments regarding my mistakes.
No, you probably did not. I think it is a matter of understanding exactly what Yast will do. This never used to be a problem for me because I used Partition Magic. Alas, it is now too old to do the newer FS's.
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!!!!!
I would also. Can you please point me to some really good FAQ's of Howto's for LVM before I embark on this new adventure? Thanks again. See my reply to Jerry asking for more clarificaation. Bob S.