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

From: Jim Flanagan (linuxjim_at_jjfiii.com)
Date: 05/09/05

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    > 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.
    >

    Thanks for the good info guys. Instead of etiding fstab, how do I reset
    the mount points using Yast?

    I do plan on doing this using the 9.3 boot DVD instead of booting from
    hard drive. 

    -- 
Jim Flanagan
linuxjim at jjfiii.co
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