i don't know about resizing a partition with fdisk (i use partition
magic) but if you are only using 5mi then backup and reformat with
whatever partitions you like, as for permssions when copying, ah not
being an expert that didn't occur to me, but i guess from the option to
preserve permisions that can be used when untarring a tarball, that
tarring your stuff would be able to keep the permissions but i don't
know the syntax for that - i've never done it!
it would be comforting for someone who has done this successfully to
comment here!
thats all i have goldenpi,
bascule
Goldenpi wrote:
>
> 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
