Ok, Sorry for the LONG reply back on the status of this.
1) I had to reformat, I damaged it to the point it wouldn't start for
nothing.
2) I ended up learning a lot, (was down for 4 - 5 days though)
When I followed the suggestions given.. It all seemed to work fine..
until I rebooted my computer
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On Thursday 24 October 2002 9:08 am, Michelle Storm wrote:
> I'd like to know if it's possible and if so, HOW, to rearrange my
> current partitions. Most of the data on /usr/local I am not worried about,
If you are going to do this a lot and want to b
snipped
> Do I need to edit/update "fstab" after this? (just making sure)
>
> Almost done reading up on "parted", so hopfully I can post a solved
> to this soon.
>
> --
> Michelle Alexia "Jade" Storm
short answer: yes
Shawn
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> Good point. I didn't really think before I blurted out "Yup." :)
>
> The quick-n-dirty way that I'd do it is:
>
> mkdir /usr/templocal
> cp -rp /usr/local /usr/templocal
> umount /usr/local
> rmdir /usr/local
> mv /usr/templocal /usr/local
>
> Ok, so it's not really that much quicker. 5 steps
Michelle Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 02:26:44 -0700]:
> > Now, as for recommendations, here are mine. For starters, quit using
> > /usr/local. I prefer to have all of my users (myself included) store ALL
> > of their personal files within their home directory. This makes managing
> > it a
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 04:17, Tom Cook wrote:
> On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > could I move the /usr/local to /usr -- mv /usr/local /usr/
> > > and as for var, can I do the same thing.
> >
> > Yup.
>
> I dunno, something there just doesn't smell quite right. I'd
Ok, was told this would be more useful as far as partition information
#parted -s /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 7.844 primary ext3boot
2
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> > could I move the /usr/local to /usr -- mv /usr/local /usr/
> > and as for var, can I do the same thing.
>
> Yup.
I dunno, something there just doesn't smell quite right. I'd do
something like this:
$ umount /usr/local
$ mkdir /mnt/tem
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On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Now, as for recommendations, here are mine. For starters, quit using
> /usr/local. I prefer to have all of my users (myself included) store ALL
> of their personal files within their home directory. This makes managing
> it all much easier.
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 03:08, Michelle Storm wrote:
> I'd like to know if it's possible and if so, HOW, to rearrange my
> current partitions. Most of the data on /usr/local I am not worried about,
> as I have it on cd's (most of it's mp3's). My personal home directory I
> do not want to loose the da
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