Rename Partitions on RH9?
Howdy,
I need to rename the partitions on my RH9 box. The desktop guys here at work cloned my hard drive and popped it into a new box (the lease on the old one was expired), and in so doing /dev/hda1 became /dev/hdc1 /dev/hda2 became /dev/hdc2, etc... I was alerted to a problem because the enabling of the swap partition failed on bootup. I've looked at /proc/partitions but I'm unable to change the permissions on this file to change the names. Is this possible? Anybody know how to do this? Thanks, Saxton :Pengy: |
Edit (as root) the /etc/fstab file and change the /dev/hdxy that corresponds to the swap partition from the old to the new.
To activate the swap partition without rebooting swapon /dev/hdxy (where hdxy is the new swap location). |
Thank you, michaelk. I did manage to do that, and it fixed the failed enabling of the swap partition. But I still have all the partitions with the new names rather than the old ones. Is there no way to rename them to the old names?
Saxton |
hda, hdb etc are a physical locations.
hda - 1st IDE controller master hdb - 1st IDE controller slave hdc - 2nd IDE controller master hdd - 2nd IDE controller slave The only way to change the names back would be to physically change the location of the drives. Do you have other problems besides swap? I might see a problem if you had CDROM drives originally connected on hdc or hdd but without additional info it shouldn't matter. |
Thanks, again michaelk. That helps quite a bit.
Saxton |
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