Thanks, David, I took the plunge and everything worked like a charm. I thought I'd drop this on the larger debian-user list as well so others in the same boat can benefit. Now I have some more playi... working (yeah, that's what it is) room in my Debian section.
On "Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:15:41 MST." David Puryear wove together: [> Hi David, [> [> You wrote: [> > [> > This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to [> > another hard drive that was on this list a while ago. [> > [> > I have a 800M hard drive that is currectly split roughly in half between a DOS [> > partition (411M) and a Debian + swap set of petitions. The Debian partition is [> > almost full and the DOS one is half empty (reflecting the amount of time I [> > find myself spending in the respective OS's (and if I could learn (La)TeX I [> > would use DOS even less) then it would be a matter of teaching my daughters). [> > I boot using loadlin from DOS. [> > [> > So what I want to do is take the DOS partition /dev/hda1 and split it in half, [> > creating a new Linux partition (copying and mounting as /home). [my own ramblings snipped] [> > First, am I correctly understanding what will happen when I fdisk and create [> > the new partition between 201 and 413? [> [> I think new partition will become /dev/hda4(new linux partition) That was indeed the case. The documentation really didn't touch on this point, that I can find.) [another rambling question of mine snipped] [> You might want to use "fips" to make you dos partition smaller. I have [> used it without problem. But please read ALL the docs. that come with [> it. Also you might want to use "cfdisk" which is lot easier then [> "fdisk". 'fips' worked like a charm as well as cfdisk. It took a while to find 'fips', and I found it in the slackware mirror my isp keeps. I didn't bother looking to see if debian had it in the tools section. if it isn't there I would recommend putting it there. [> BTW. BACKUP! I know you'll hear this but it is true. Anything can go [> wrong so backup. Good advice. Everything worked fine so I didn't need it, but something good to do. -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
