swapping /boot and / partitions

Peff · 06-13-2005, 07:30 PM

Hi

Before installing Sarge, I created a 3-partition scheme, one each for /boot, /, and swap. The problem is that the /boot stuff got mistakenly installed on the big partition and / on the small one.

Can I swap the contents of these partitions and change the bootable flag to the correct (small) partition, and then reconfigure GRUB? Is so, any recomendations for the procedure?

My Fujitsu P-1110 has NO CD-ROM drive so a reinstall is rather painful. I'd like to shuffle the data around if this is possible.

thanks,

Peff

SciYro · 06-13-2005, 08:29 PM

i don't see why you cant.

but it might take multiple reboots, first theres the problem of the programs, if you move them, then the next time you use em, it might fail, so you should copy over all contents of the programs (whats in /boot) to its new home, then do the same to the other stuff, reconfigure grub (and anything else), then restart, then delete anything that needs to be, then restart it it should be fixed .......

is that right?

Peff · 06-14-2005, 12:20 AM

Hi

thanks for the advice. I think I have a less risky solution:

1. shrink my /boot partition

2. Create another logical partition to hold the /usr and /home directories. where I expect the system to grow the most in the future

3. modify fstab to mount the relocated directories

reasonable?

thanks

Peff