There was a thread related to this a few days ago but I didn't follow
all of it.
When I first installed Linux, I did it from my DOS partition. I
envisioned my machine would be a dual boot machine. Here it is 7 months
later and I haven't booted into my old DOS/Win 3.1 once. The "df"
command shows....
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda2 1248527 802598 381417 68% /
/dev/hda1 340448 238880 101568 70% /dosc
Is it a hard task to "steal" /dev/hda1 from DOS and now use it for
Linux? Right now I'm looking at it as 340m of wasted space.
The output of "du -c /home" shows about 160m used. Can I do the
following?....
* use fdisk to make /dev/hda1 a linux partition
* use mk2fs (or mke2fs, not sure which) to format for Linux
* copy my /home dir tree to this new partition
* change fstab from: (not sure what the number fields are for?)
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults 1 0
to:
/dev/hda1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
* boot my machine
* Write Bill a letter thanking him for the use of his software all
these years.
What do I have wrong? In reading what I have above, I'm not sure how I
would copy /home to a new partition? Maybe I have to do all this from a
boot floppy without the file system mounted?
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Scott Felton
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Slackware Linux
