My current distribution is Fedora Core 3. Being timid, I've avoided
trying to update it, but have now reached the stage where I accept that
I must.
I've got three hard drives on my system; the original internal one, that
came with Windows on it (hda); another internal one I added, with FC3 on
it (hdb); and an external USB one, formatted in vfat and usable by
either OS (usbhd).
Hdb has only three partitions, /boot, / and swap.
My plan is to resize /, create two new /boot and / partitions in the
now-free space and then add FC6 to them, keeping FC3 just in case I need it.
For the resize, I want to reduce the space taken by FC3 on the existing
/ partition as much as possible.
I've moved many of my data files from hdb to sda, the latter having
still plenty of free space on it.
Can I also move other files, like those in /bin and /etc, so that almost
all of FC3 is on usbhd, with what's left behind being just pointers to
the appropriate directories on usbhd?
If so, how to create the pointers? (I know about links to individual
files, but obviously I can't use that.)
If it can be done, are there reasons why I shouldn't do it?
Leslie
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