renovate partitions without reinstalling

[dballester at kernpharma.com]

Hi:

      Well, well, well... welcome to the freedoom club ;)

Supousing that you will delete your windows partitions, here is what i
could do:

(In general, if you think that's good, let me know to explain in detail)

      Backup your important data from windows to linux ( docs,
spreadsheets, music, images, etc...).

      Delete partitions in /dev/hda ( windows disk )

      Swap disks physicaly ( windows disk ( 20Gb ) will be at /dev/hdc and
linux disk will be at /dev/hda )

      Boot machine with Fedora Disk1, in rescue mode.

      When prompted to mount your system under /mnt/sysimage respond yes.
Then execute 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'. ( I don't remember if it's sysimage or
another name...)

      Edit /etc/fstab. References to /dev/hdc must point now to /dev/hda.

      Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. Delete lines corresponding to windows.
References to hd2 will point now to hd0

      Save file.

      Execute grub-install

      Exit from chroot.

      Reboot.

      You have your fedora working from /dev/hda.

      Now, the funny steps :
      =======================

      Shutdown -r now

      Startup with single mode

      We will use logical volumes, with them, we will expand our disks more
easily in the future.

      Create partition for swap in /dev/hdc ( space can be  1 x RAM ),
create 1 partition of ext3 type in /dev/hdc for /tmp partition and create 1
LVM partition for /home. ( be sure to left 1-1,5 Gb free without
partitioning )

      swap on /dev/hdc/<swap_partition>

      Configure LVM to make 1 physical volume, and assign all space in this
partition for /home with ext3.

      mkdir /mnt/new_home

      Format /dev/hdc/<tmp_partition> with ext3.

      mount /dev/hdc/<lvm_home> /mnt/new_home

      cp -pRH /home/* /mnt/new_home

      mv /home /old_home

      Edit /etc/fstab to change values according to new configuration.

      Reboot.

      ( If your original / is not full, and is data can be moved to
/dev/hdc for a while, i would be nice to make / again under LVM, too ).

HTH

Regards










David Ballester Montolio
Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com

GNU!


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Hi,
I'm currently dual-booting winXP Pro and FC1, and the time has come to free

myself from Microsoft!  (long pause while cheers and applause subside)

I have a really, really, really great install of FC1 working now, and
prefer
not to do a complete reinstall.

I've googled a bit and looked around on the LDP for a HOWTO, but haven't
found
anything acceptable.

My current setup:
[root at moe root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *         1       203    102280+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2           204     75465  37932048   83  Linux
/dev/hdc3         75466     77545   1048320   82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/hda: 20.5 GB, 20525137920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39770 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1     39749  20033023+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/hda.

I would like to have the following new setup:
/boot, /, swap on /dev/hda
/home, /tmp, swap on /dev/hdc
Grub in the MBR of /dev/hda

I have a good backup, and don't mind reinstalling if there's no other
option,
but I was wondering if anyone could give me a nudge in the right direction?

- --
Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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