Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

[Kent West]

Ridge Chittenden wrote:
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Ridge Chittenden wrote:
   

Now, I want to recombine the partitions into one, big chunk.
This would be a pretty straightforward use of parted, I assume, but here's the rub: For some reason, the
Debian installer put / on /dev/hda1 and /usr on
/dev/hda3. If I just delete /dev/hda3, I'll destroy
/usr, right? That, I presume, would be bad. 

So how to I handle this?
The installer apparently saw the two 60GB partitions
and used them both; 
one for / and one for /usr.

You'll need to copy the /usr files over to the first
partition.
# init 1
# umount /usr
# mkdir /oldusr
# mount /dev/hda3 /olduser
# cp -a /olduser/* /usr
# [edit /etc/fstab and comment out or delete the
/dev/hda3 line]
# init 2
   

Thanks Kent. This looks like what I need to do. A
quick question: What's the reason for going into
single-user mode?
So that no files on /usr are in use. You won't be able to unmount /usr 
otherwise.

I ask because this machine has
neither keyboard nor monitor, and I usually ssh into
it. init 1 drops my ssh connection.
(Thinking out loud: Perhaps this is a good time to
boot with a live CD--assuming it enables sshd--since I
expect I'll need to not be running off /dev/hda at all
to edit the partition table...)
 

That should be a workable solution.
--
Kent
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