On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:31, alex wrote: > How would you create new swap and /home partitions om hdb so Debian > would use these instead of the original /home and swap?
First create the new partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (cfdisk is easier to use) and then remove the old swop partition, edit /etc/fstab and reinitialise the new swop partition. I.E cfdisk /dev/hdb Add Partitions, but on the swop partition, choose the label option and user the ID number 82 (swop) /sbin/swapoff -a /sbin/mkswap /dev/hdb? /sbin/swapon /dev/hdb? Depending upon what file system you would like to use (I use ext3), so /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb? (This is the new home partition) mv /home /home.orig Edit /etc/fstab and edit the swop partition to the new device, and also add the new home mount point: /dev/hdb? /home ext3 defaults 0 0 mount -a mv /home.orig/* /home > Additionally, how could you best utilize the space gained by > transferring data from the original /home to the new /home partition? This will depend upon what u want, you could resize the root partition? or even the /usr partition, using parted (apt-get install parted) Hope that helps Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]