Advice taken, but I have already tried and have just had to reformat :-( I
used the reformat to set the home partiton anyway.
I found out about permissions on fat filesystems while failing to move the
partiton.
I have also learnt that 500mi is a bit too big for just me and root. I am
useing just 1% of it. Is there anyway to use fdisk to resize a partition?
Also noticed that when I moved the home directory under x while loged in as
root, it set every file and directory to owner root.
----- Original Message -----
From: "bascule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive
> hi goldenpi, your stuff currently on /home would simply become invisible
> unless your current /home is a seperate volume that you can mount
> elsewhere but i guess not from your intention to use your new drive as
> /home. use ext2 unless for some reason you 'have' to be able to see this
> drive in dos/windows, permissions don't work the same on a dos drive
> (basically there are none - sort of) so i can see things becoming
> confused with such a basic part of the filesystem on a dos partition -
> expert needed here i think!
>
> rename /home to /home.old or similar, create /home again, mount new
> drive to /home and copy the contents of /home.old over, my hunch would
> be to do this as root with X not running to avoid having files from
> /home open while performing this action.
>
> not knowing how your drive is connected or if it is scsi or ide i cannot
> tell you what a suitable fstab should be, but if you run drakconf and
> then linuxconf and choose file systems and then access local drive; you
> should see your new drive detailed as not mounted, click on it's entry
> and enter the options you want including mount point, this will create
> your fstab for you and you can mount and unmount the drive to copy your
> files over
>
> i hope this is cogent (and correct!), i think i've confused myself!
>
> bascule
>
>
> Goldenpi wrote:
> >
> > I have just inserted my new old 500mi drive, to hold my /home partition.
> > Now, should I use ext2 or dos filesystem? If I use ext2, what is the
> > correct format for fstab? If I just mount it to /home what will happen
to
> > the stuff in my /home partition now?
> >
> > I see a reformat looming.
> >
> >
>
