Re: [SLE] Help with install to 5th partition - Continued

From: Ken Schneider (suse-list_at_bout-tyme.net)
Date: 05/09/05

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 10:51:24 -0400

    On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:00 -0500, 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?
    >
    > Many thanks,
    >
    Jim,
    You will need to boot to the rescue CD/DVD as you will need to modify
    mount points of filesystems that are in use when the system is booted
    even (I think) in run level 1. Perhaps runlevel S would be better?
    You also need a "quiet" system which makes booting to a rescue CD
    better. That way you can mount the current /usr (/var) to some other
    mount point, temporarily to move the files back and forth. And yes fstab
    will need to be adjusted as well. I believe the extended partition will
    hdb4 and the new partitions will be hdb5 and hdb6.
    Make sure you have a good backup just in case. 

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Ken Schneider
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