On Monday 09 May 2005 15:00, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Further to my original post on this topic on Arpil 23rd, I'm planning on moving mount points around (/var /usr /home) to one partion, in order to create an extended partion, them move these mount points back to seperate partions on the extended partion. I basically need to make more partions for my 9.3 install.
To recap from before, I currenty have seperate primary partions as follows: hdb1 swap hdb2 home hdb3 usr hdb4 var All mount under suse 8.2 and KDE
I plan to temporairially move /usr and /var to /home, create an extended partion, hdb3 I think, then hdb4 & hdb 5 and move /usr and /var back to these respecitvely.
My question is what do I have to do for suse to find these moved partions? Do I have to edit fstab or something, or will the boot process find them automatically?
If I've understood what you want to do aright, yes, you will have to edit /etc fstab, and make sure that the directories in / exist with the right permissions in order for /etc/fstab to mount them. The boot process will read /etc/fstab, and if it doesn't find the right instructions as to what to mount where properly set out in that file AFAIK it has no other means of finding the mounts for you. If that affects a critical file system, it won't boot, or will only partially boot. HTH Fergus
Many thanks,
-- Jim Flanagan linuxjim@jjfiii.com
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk