Molnar Peter said: > Hello! > I want to create another partition, but that would cause hda5 -> hda6 and > so on. I've been looking on the web, but didnt find any information that > helped me on how to change the boot partition. > > What I want is to create another partition (new hda5), while having the > old system work (hda5 -> hda6). (I have tried to move the old ext3 > partition to the beginning of the extended partition, but all software > failed, I was unable to do it).
are you aiming to DELETE the existing partition and move data to a new one? or are you just ADDING a partition which will change the number of the EXISTING partition? if your deleting, you should be able to copy the data by going to single user mode and doing a cp -a for all directories(except proc) to the new filesystem, make a proc directory on the new filesystem and edit the fstab on the new filesystem to reflect the new location of the root partition(I've done this dozens of times on debian, the process should be just as possible on redhat or any other linux distro), re configure your boot loader(I use LILO, never used grub.. for lilo edit your lilo.conf and change the path to the root partition and re-run lilo). reboot and you should be set if your ADDING a partition which will change the existing partition numbering scheme, just add it, re-configure the boot loader to point to the new partition and your done. keep a working boot disk or boot CD handy incase something goes wrong. and backup all your data incase something goes wrong. nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
