renovate partitions without reinstalling
Charles Howse
chowse at charter.net
Mon Mar 8 18:20:40 UTC 2004
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On Monday 08 March 2004 11:32 am, dballester at kernpharma.com wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Well, well, well... welcome to the freedoom club ;)
>
> Supousing that you will delete your windows partitions, here is what i
> could do:
>
> (In general, if you think that's good, let me know to explain in detail)
Well, it sounds pretty good, but I think it would be a good idea to let the
thread continue for a few days, in case anybody else cares to comment. :-)
>
> Backup your important data from windows to linux ( docs,
> spreadsheets, music, images, etc...).
Nothing to do here.
>
> Delete partitions in /dev/hda ( windows disk )
>
> Swap disks physicaly ( windows disk ( 20Gb ) will be at /dev/hdc and
> linux disk will be at /dev/hda )
I prefer not to do this. I was really wanting to use the 40GB drive
(/dev/hdc) for storage rather than the os.
>
> Boot machine with Fedora Disk1, in rescue mode.
>
> When prompted to mount your system under /mnt/sysimage respond yes.
> Then execute 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'. ( I don't remember if it's sysimage or
> another name...)
>
> Edit /etc/fstab. References to /dev/hdc must point now to /dev/hda.
How do I deal with the LABEL tag?
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. Delete lines corresponding to windows.
> References to hd2 will point now to hd0
>
> Save file.
>
> Execute grub-install
>
> Exit from chroot.
>
> Reboot.
>
> You have your fedora working from /dev/hda.
>
> Now, the funny steps :
> =======================
>
> Shutdown -r now
>
> Startup with single mode
Hold it...am I starting up from the rescue disk or from the hard disk?
>
> We will use logical volumes, with them, we will expand our disks more
> easily in the future.
I don't understand why I would want to do that.
I definitly will not be adding any more hard disks to this computer, I've
never felt a need to create logical volumes before, and I've been using Linux
off and on since RH 6.2.
>
> Create partition for swap in /dev/hdc ( space can be 1 x RAM ),
> create 1 partition of ext3 type in /dev/hdc for /tmp partition and create 1
> LVM partition for /home. ( be sure to left 1-1,5 Gb free without
> partitioning )
How can I determine the size of my current swap partition?
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc3 75466 77545 1048320 82 Linux swap
Why would I want to leave 1-1.5 GB free space?
>
> swap on /dev/hdc/<swap_partition>
>
> Configure LVM to make 1 physical volume, and assign all space in this
> partition for /home with ext3.
>
> mkdir /mnt/new_home
>
> Format /dev/hdc/<tmp_partition> with ext3.
>
> mount /dev/hdc/<lvm_home> /mnt/new_home
>
> cp -pRH /home/* /mnt/new_home
>
> mv /home /old_home
mv /mnt/new_home /home ????
>
> Edit /etc/fstab to change values according to new configuration.
>
> Reboot.
>
> ( If your original / is not full, and is data can be moved to
> /dev/hdc for a while, i would be nice to make / again under LVM, too ).
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
>
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> David Ballester Montolio
> Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
> Kern Pharma, S.L.
> www.kernpharma.com
>
> GNU!
>
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> | | Asunto: renovate partitions without
> | reinstalling
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>
> Hi,
> I'm currently dual-booting winXP Pro and FC1, and the time has come to free
>
> myself from Microsoft! (long pause while cheers and applause subside)
>
> I have a really, really, really great install of FC1 working now, and
> prefer
> not to do a complete reinstall.
>
> I've googled a bit and looked around on the LDP for a HOWTO, but haven't
> found
> anything acceptable.
>
> My current setup:
> [root at moe root]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdc2 204 75465 37932048 83 Linux
> /dev/hdc3 75466 77545 1048320 82 Linux swap
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 20.5 GB, 20525137920 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39770 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 39749 20033023+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/hda.
>
> I would like to have the following new setup:
> /boot, /, swap on /dev/hda
> /home, /tmp, swap on /dev/hdc
> Grub in the MBR of /dev/hda
>
> I have a good backup, and don't mind reinstalling if there's no other
> option,
> but I was wondering if anyone could give me a nudge in the right direction?
>
> --
> Charles Howse
> Jackson, TN
> Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
>
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