Re: Newbie question: Partitioning and SAMBA

[Adam Getchell <acgetchell ucdavis edu>]

>I would like guidance/pointers on the following:
>
>1)	I set up with disk druid a single 600 MB Linux partition. Why do I
>have /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5, and why the discrepancy in blocks?
>
>2)	I would like to convert my 400 MB DOS partition to root to convert
>this box entirely to Linux, if possible, without reinstalling.
>
>3)	I'd like to mount and/or map /home, /var, and /usr onto /dev/hda2,
>keeping /dev/hda1 devoted to root.
>
>4)	I'd like to create a LINUX swap partition on the 300 MB /dev/hdb1
>using 120 MB.
>
>5)	I'd like to use the rest of /dev/hdb1 for /usr/local
>
>6)	I'd like to use SAMBA packages in RPM to connect up with the rest
>of my NT network.
>
>Am I on the right track here? Any better suggestions?

Of course, right after I posted this, I stumbled on cfdisk which finally
seemed to work after I fixed some bad blocks and played with system
configuration tools in Xwindonws (also took care of my pesky screen redraw
problem -- it is much nicer with Xwindows configured). I've got /dev/hdb5
as a 120 MB swap partition and /dev/hdb6 as a 200 MB ex2 partition mounted
at /usr/local. Now I need to find the information to transfer my /usr/local
from hda5 to hdb6 and the best way to go about transferring root to
/dev/hda1 ....


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