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[Alain Barthélemy <cassandre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Monday 27 June 2005, 10:39:29 ou environ Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
> On Monday 27 Jun 2005 10:11 am, Sean Rima wrote:
> > Is there anyway that I can delete my windows partition as I have not
> > booted into it for a long time and use it for /usr as it is 17gb in
> > size or would I be better to use it for /home
> 
> I'd be more likely to use it for /home to make sure your personal 
> settings and data are easy to preserve across updates and/or system 
> failures.
> 
> As to deleting the windows partition and re-using it:
> 
> -unmount it
> -remove the entry from /etc/fstab
> -format it
> -make a new entry in fstab
> -mount it
> 
> the only complication is that if you are going to use it for /home 
> or /usr you will need to mount it elsewhere then copy the contents of 
> the old directory to the new partition before mounting the new one over 
> the original mountpoint. After a few days of use you can temporarily 
> unmount it and delete the contents of the old directory.
> 
> Dylan
> 
> >
> > Sean

Personaly I just rename/reformat (change the file system) and make a
sym-link between my /home/user directory and the renamed directory.


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Alain Barthélemy
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