Vincent Murphy wrote:
>> is there any way i can do it 'manually'? as in boot the machine with
> a boot disk, shuffle the partitions around somehow (with dd maybe?), and
> edit the partition table on the disk (either manually or with fdisk) to
> reflect the changes.
Maybe it's the slogger in me, but (if swap really needs to be a primary
partition, and I don't think it does) I would (1) find a primary
partition about the same size as one of the free partitions, (2) mke2fs
free_partition (3) mount -t ext2 free_partition /tmp_usr (or whatever)
(4) cd /usr (or whatever); (as root) tar cfl - . | (cd /tmp_usr; tar xf
-) (l keeps in one filesystem) (5) mount free_partition as /usr, change
/etc/fstab to reflect new setup, and finally mkswap; swapon for the (now
duplicated and unused) old partition - slow, but guaranteed to save data
and so on.
> regards,
> -vinny
Cheers,
Dave
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