Stormraven wrote: > What I needed to know was this: I have my system partitioned, and XP > resides on hda1. My file storage area is a vfat partition on hda5, and > Linux resides on hda6 with the swap on 7. I want to move my files from > my vfat to my linux native drive, and nuke the XP install alltogether, > with the optimum goal of eliminating the partitions all together (with > the exception of the swap) and make my Tosh entirely Linux native. > My husband is a computer professional, but he's not a Linux guru, and > he's not certain we can do this, so we're just planning to back up all > my info on his XP machine and reformat the Tosh so I can do a clean > install of Linux on it. But I've got Ubuntu tricked out and I really > don't want to have to go through all that again, if I don't have to.
It is possible, and relatively easy. You may have to move things around a bit to get your partitions to your liking, but here's what I would suggest: 1) In Windows, make sure everything you want to keep from Windows is on hda5. 2) In Linux, copy all those files off hda5 to, say, hda6. 3) Making sure hda1 is not mounted, format it to a Linux-native format. I like Reiser, but ext3 is also very popular: mkreiserfs /dev/hda1 mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 4) Feel free to do the same with hda5, since vfat is a pretty terrible format. 5) Decide where you want to mount hda1 and hda5 in your filesystem. /home and /var are popular choices. 6) Follow this guide: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-partplan.html It describes how one moves a mountpoint from one partition to another. Feel free to modify what I say above to suit your needs. As you never really mentioned what you have on hda2 and hda3 (/boot and something?), I can't be sure that this is exactly what you want to do. Best of luck, Chad Martin To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
