Re: [newbie] Adding a partition

2002-02-24 Thread Marcia
On Sunday 24 February 2002 02:14 am, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Hi, > > I think that after you mounted the new partition as /home, it hides the > previous /home directory that you had (since the desktop settings are > stored there, this explains why your desktop has changed). I think that > what you

Re: [newbie] Adding a partition

2002-02-23 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, I think that after you mounted the new partition as /home, it hides the previous /home directory that you had (since the desktop settings are stored there, this explains why your desktop has changed). I think that what you should do is unmount this directory (using 'umount'), move your /home

Re: [newbie] Adding a partition

2002-02-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Marcia wrote: > > Dear All, > > I meant to setup my partitions differently when I installed LM8.1. I ended up > just mounting one small partition and now I would like to add or mount a > partition to give my LM and vmware more room. I have about 8 GB's of disk > space covering a masterIDE drive

[newbie] Adding a partition

2002-02-21 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I meant to setup my partitions differently when I installed LM8.1. I ended up just mounting one small partition and now I would like to add or mount a partition to give my LM and vmware more room. I have about 8 GB's of disk space covering a masterIDE drive and slave IDE drive. I f

[newbie] adding a partition to Mandrake 7.1

2000-09-26 Thread Jeff Malka
Using Mandrake 7.1 and KDE, I have several DOS partitions that are visible to me under Linux and that are automounted. There was one partition however that was not included. I tried to add it but did not succeed. The partition I want to be visible is a "second" primary DOS partition. (I have t

Re: [newbie] Adding a Partition

2000-03-22 Thread flupke
Lane Lester wrote: > > I'm running out of space on which I put everything except /boot. I've got > another partition to which I'd like to move /usr, but I don't have a clue > about how to do that. If there's a man page that explains it, just point > me toward it. Or if you're feeling generous, ju

Re: [newbie] Adding a Partition

2000-03-22 Thread flupke
Lane Lester wrote: > > I'm running out of space on which I put everything except /boot. I've got > another partition to which I'd like to move /usr, but I don't have a clue > about how to do that. If there's a man page that explains it, just point > me toward it. Or if you're feeling generous, ju

[newbie] Adding a Partition

2000-03-21 Thread Lane Lester
I'm running out of space on which I put everything except /boot. I've got another partition to which I'd like to move /usr, but I don't have a clue about how to do that. If there's a man page that explains it, just point me toward it. Or if you're feeling generous, just describe what I suspect are