On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:15:42AM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: >Hey everyone, > >Let's say I want to create some ReiserFS paritions on a H.D. that's not >completely allocated yet. For the sake of argument, let's say that I've got >a 10 GB disk with 5 GB formatted as ext2 and all of it in one / >partition. The rest is unparitioned. (This isn't exactly my situation, but >it's analogous.) Use fdisk to make the partitions making sure you don't modify the geometry of any of the existing partitions. and then run mkreiserfs. > >What would be the procedure to create a new 2 GB partition, format it as >ReiserFS and mount it at /home? Further, are there any special >considerations if the same procedure is attempted with /var or any other >paritions? You need to cp -ax the data from the directory to the new partitions mount /dev/newpart /mnt cp -ax /var/* /mnt edit your fstab, and remount. if all goes well drop to single usermode with init 1 unmount and rm -rf or mv the old data off to reclaim the space. > >I'd welcome any suggestions or pointers to relevents documentation. > >-Tim > >-- >Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: >Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ >W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ >wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) "It's hard to believe that's the same frail woman who once sprained her wrist from having too much dip on a cracker!" -- Frazier Crane -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010319/3871bdd4/attachment.pgp