Hello,

This is the fstab from my testing system. On this system I try out all kinds of
systems. Unfortunately I made the discission to split my ubuntu system.
I put /boot in partition hdb1 and the rest in hdb3.


/dev/hdb3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 /MijnDocumenten vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /media/hdb2 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb5 /media/hdb5 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb6 /media/hdb6 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb7 /media/hdb7 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb8 /media/hdb8 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdd5 /media/hdd5 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdd6 /media/hdd6 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hdd7 /media/hdd7 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Normally this is no bad praxis, but in this system the boot is changed
one or two times a month, and then I have to ask myself where did I leave
the boot. Anyway in this case it is more easy to have the whole os in
one partition.

So this is what i want to do :
Start up from a bootable cd.
Copy everything that is in hdb1 to hdb3
Change the fstab
Change menu.lst
Go to Grub and make it to start from hdb3

Did I forget something ?

Thanks for the reactions.

CloudBuilder

no, that sounds pretty good to me, just make sure you copy the permissions and stuff too.
oh and begin with the /boot partition, to get it at the beginning of the disk.

hmmz maybe I'm just confused by the large fstab too..)