Ok... using my vast intellegence, or lack thereof, I set out to repartition my disk to remove the two [usr & var] partitions that I moved over to another disk, and resize my swap from 64 to 128, and resize my root to be the remainder of the disk.
So I dumped the root partition to a dump file on my other disk [which is most likely going to end up being my saviour]. I repartitioned the disk, but it didn't seem to take. So I booted off the rescue floppy and set up the swap partition again. Which seemed to work, but the resized root partition didn't take. I then [this is where the lack of vast intelligence kicks in] re-initialized my root partition, thinking I could restore my root dump onto the new partition... at this point I figured there was a better way, but I couldn't think of it. So I <alt><F2>'d, mounted my other disks partitions, and set out to restore onto /target, Only to find that I didn't have the restore command. So I searched through my backup [I dumped to a dump file, and I dumped to stdout also so I had access to those files], found my restore, and tried to execute it, only to find that I couldn't [it couldn't find something... I assumed it was a function in a shareable that wasn't around because of booting off of the rescue]. So I came up with another idea, I would tar and untar the backup version of the root filesystem onto the new root in /target. Only tar had a similar issue with a function it couldn't find. Now... is there _any_ way I can solve this without totally reinstalling debian on my new root partition, booting up, whiping it out and restoring my old partition from the dump file? -Jeff ************************************************************************** | Jeff Schreiber | Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, | | aka - "Spectre" | why did they believe me? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Jack Handey) | ************************************************************************** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null