This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to another hard drive that was on this list a while ago.
I have a 800M hard drive that is currectly split roughly in half between a DOS partition (411M) and a Debian + swap set of petitions. The Debian partition is almost full and the DOS one is half empty (reflecting the amount of time I find myself spending in the respective OS's (and if I could learn (La)TeX I would use DOS even less) then it would be a matter of teaching my daughters). I boot using loadlin from DOS. So what I want to do is take the DOS partition /dev/hda1 and split it in half, creating a new Linux partition (copying and mounting as /home). As I contemplate the move I think it could get very sticky. As I see it this is what might happen... Current Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 413 416272+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 800 800 825 26208 82 Linux swap Projected Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 200 ....... 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 201 201 413 ....... 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 800 800 825 26208 82 Linux swap First, am I correctly understanding what will happen when I fdisk and create the new partition between 201 and 413? If so, then must I unmount the old /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3, perform the fdisk and then mount them again? And if I do that, do I need to mount a floppy with the kernel on it and possibly other files (umount, mount, fdisk, mkfs maybe?) for the transition? After I get past that part, I think I know what to do (gleaned from previous maessages). Thanks for any help I can get! -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]