On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:50:46PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > I would like to transition from the "monopartition" to one with > independent /, /home, /var, /tmp and /usr. > > Was about to make a mistake by using Partition magic to slice the > current /dev/hda7 since it would have changed the /dev/hda8 into > something else and I would not have rebooted ... > > What is the proper way to procede ?
Make sure you have a rescue disk that works (e.g. knoppix, rip, tomsrtbt), and preferably a backup! I would go ahead and repartition with PM or parted, and then use the rescue disk to fix everything up. that might not be the best way, I don't know. You might like to think about using lvm. > The /dev/hda5 fat32 partition is quite large and contains most of my > work related data and also data from Firefox, Thunderbird and Lotus > Notes. Since this machine from times to times must also work under WinXP > :( I would like to use this partition in common with the similar Linux > programs ... is using symbolic links the correct way to handle this ? yes, I think you could use symlinks to do this. give it a go and see if it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
