Re: Partition question

2003-09-18 Thread Darik Horn
> /dev/sda1 as /boot > /dev/sda2 as / > /dev/sda3 as swap. In this case, you probably want /dev/sda2 to appear before /dev/sda1 in the fstab file because filesystems are mounted in order by line number. If "/foo" is mounted after "/foo/bar", then "/foo/bar" will not be accessible until "/foo" is

Re: Partition question

2000-09-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting David A. Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been using Mandrake, but want to try using Debian. Mandrake puts the > kernel in /boot. So it was nice to make /boot one partition and / in another. > I tried installing 2.2 but couldn't figure out how to make the installer do > that. Any sugge

Re: partition question

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 11:21:11PM -0600, Wesley Simon wrote: > > > I have a linux partition that is running out of space. I have another > partition on the drive that used to be NT, I toasted that partition and > created another linux partition. I would like to put everthing under > /usr on th

Re: partition question

1999-01-07 Thread frleg
The first thing is to ensure you copy all the files AND links. This can be done using the -a command in cp. You don't have to change the name of your partitions (in fact, it does nothing). If you have 2 partitions mounted on /usr and /bkup /dev/hda1 > /usr /dev/hda2 > /bkup You just have t