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adding new partitions?

i installed slack 9 w/ /swap and /. i used cfdisk after to create partitions for /usr and /home. how do i set up the directories and /mnt them if i'm asking this right?

the quick way is.... assuming we're moving /usr onto /dev/hdb1 in the example:
create the file system, ext3 in this example

Code:

mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1

then move stuff onto it

Code:

mkdir /mnt/usr

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/usr

find /usr -xdev | cpio -pvd /mnt

umount /dev/hdb1

and then create an fstab entry:

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /usr ext3 defaults 1 1

you should then be able to mount your new /usr partition.

NB, your old usr data will not be touched at any point, so as and when you are happy with the sytem, delete the old /usr data...

Code:

init 1

umount /usr

rm -rf /usr/*

mount /usr

init 5

ok so what do i use to make reiserfs FS?