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On Monday 22 December 2003 11:17, David Z Maze wrote:
> "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?)
>
> Ctrl+Alt+Bksp will kill your X server; if you're running under a
> display manager [gdm, kdm, xdm, wdm], that will probably restart the
> server, so you'd need to log in on the console as root and run
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop (or equivalent).
>
> > and make temp folders and start moving stuff around, can I just
> > rearrange everything (while making the appropriate changes in
> > FSTAB)? Or can I just change FSTAB and reboot and everything is
> > miraculously where it should be?
>
> Just changing /etc/fstab won't cause the data to magically move
> between partitions. If I were doing this level of shuffling, I'd
> probably shut the system down to single-user mode ('shutdown' or
> 'telinit 1' as root). If you're trying to move the root partition,
> I'd do it while booted from your favorite restore media; remember in
> that case to also update your bootloader configuration to know where
> the new root partition is.
Haha, I almost had everything perfectly set up. I should have waited for
your email. Only problem is I use a boot floppy and using the cli
commands to make another has yet to be successful for me.
>
> --
> David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is
> interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
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The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of
horrors, the stripping of personal freedom.
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