Re: Help on changing partitioning scheme please

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:50:46PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > I would like to transition from the "monopartition" to one with > independent /, /home, /var, /tmp and /usr. > > Was about to make a mistake by using Partition magic to slice the > current /dev/hda7 since it would have changed the

Help on changing partitioning scheme please

2004-12-18 Thread Bob Alexander
Situation: 1) running "monopartition" Debian on /dev/hda8 2) similar size spare partition on /dev/hda7 that can be sliced at will 3) /dev/hda5 FAT32 partition used as Windows XP "data partition" First question: I would like to transition from the "monopartition" to one with independent /, /home, /