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Old 10-18-2003, 05:41 PM   #1
lesthanjakejohn
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Question selecting wrong mountpoint


I recently installed Mandrake 9.1

I have 4 partitions, a windows partition, 32m parition ext2, 512m swap, 25g reiserfs

I have the 32m mounted as /home on accident How to I change it to /boot?
 
Old 10-18-2003, 10:25 PM   #2
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/etc/fstab is where the mount points are specified for each device (partition)

you will of course need to put the /boot/files on the new /boot/partition and the /home/files on it's new partition.

you should also check the grub.conf or lilo.conf file to make sure it's ok.
 
  


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