Redistributing hard drive space

[VJ]

I would not suggest removing the contents of old directory, just rename the
directory and create a mount point of the same name and at same location for
mounting the new partition at that mount point. First check if everything
works fine and then only remove the original directory contents.

VJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jludwig" <wralphie at comcast.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: Redistributing hard drive space


> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 22:50, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I ordered a copy of Win4Lin 5 this week and it came in today and I got
> > it installed.  I was running dual boot with Linux and Windows ME, but
> > now that I've got Win4Lin working, I'd like to get rid of Windows and
> > reclaim the 14GB it was using for Linux.  When I installed Fedora Core
> > anaconda offered use all my partitions, but I don't know how to do that
> > after install and I don't really feel like reinstalling Fedora Core.  I
> > haven't had to reinstall it since last April, and this is the longest
> > I've gone without having to reinstall the OS in either Linux or
> > Windows.  Can anyone tell me how to do this?  Please help!
> This is what I have done and would do.
>
> 1) Determine what you want to use the partition for (S.A. /usr)
>
> 2) Reformat the partition
>    A) Fdisk to the format you want ext3, NTFS, reister ---
>    B) Format the partition and mount it.
>    C) Copy all data to the new partition and verify it.
>    D) Erase the data in the old directory(s).
>    E) Change /etc/fstab.
>
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> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
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