Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hdb has only three partitions, /boot, / and swap.
It's a good idea to have a /home partition as well. Makes it easier during upgrades and reinstalls, you can leave /home alone and do what ever you want to /boot and /. > 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? You can't move /bin and /etc, no. They need to be on the / partition. Programs like mount are in /bin, so if /bin wasn't on /, then you couldn't mount any partitions during boot. You could move /usr, but not to a fat file system. To move /usr you would boot from a cd, move the old usr to a different hard drive and add a line in fstab to mount the new /usr during boot. > If it can be done, are there reasons why I shouldn't do it? If it was me, i wouldn't try to keep the old system around. I would backup /home, /etc, (/usr/local if needed) and reinstall from scratch with the latest release , this time creating a /home partition. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
