on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:54:46PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:50 AM > > > on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Note that partitioning is a pretty subjective issue. You can pretty > > much have any number of partitions from one[1] on up. <125 lines snipped> Please use postfix quoting format: your reply goes below the material cited. Trim your quotes appropriately and ensure your attributions are accurate. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html > Hi Karsten, I have a perhaps stupid question with an obvious answer > (but not so evident to me): > During the installation process of a Debian system, I don't remember > ever being prompted a question asking me in what partition I wanted to > install anything except / , During the partitioning dialogs, you're prompted for creating partitions, and/or where you want to mount these partitions. Only the root and swap partitions are queried by default, you'd want to initialize and mount additional partitions (an additional option) to create multiple system partitions. This is covered in chapter 6 of the Debian Woody installation manual: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html > so I figure that this redistribution into different partitions must be > done after the whole installation script runs. Do you accomplish this > by moving, or by creating syslinks? Or either way? Which is best? "Best" is pretty subjective. If you've got slack (free) space on your drive(s), you can partition this with fdisk, cfdisk, etc., *carefully*. Create filesystem(s) of your preferred type (most commonly ext2, ext3, or reiserfs). To transfer content, it's generally best to boot the system to single-user mode, then: - Mount the source partition read-only. - Mount the new partition to, eg: /mnt/target - CD to the top of the directory tree you plan to transfer. - use tar to migrate the old tree to the new location: tar cvpf . | ( cd /mnt/target; tar xvpf - ) - umount /mnt/target. - edit /etc/fstab to reflect new mountpoint. - rename source source.old - mount target partition to source Rinse, wash, and repeat for additional partitions. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
