Once upon a time, ""Angles" wrote :
> When I went all "Open Source", I stopped using my old partioning app
> (partition magic?). For the RH7 install I used FIPS (a couple times).
> Then ext3 came out and my old commercial partioning app is real old, so I
> ask what OS software can non-destructively repartition a HD so I can put
> /home on a seperate partition now?
Parted is your friend! You can't do _everything_, the most limiting being
that you can't move the start of a partition, but it's quite powerful
nevertheless, and I've been very happy with it the few times I've had to
use it.
> >If you didn't put /home on a separate partition,
>
> With winbloze 9x I used to deltree the winbloze dir and some "Program
> Files" dirs, and install "fresh" instead of upgrade, while saving my
> other data. Can this trick be used with this RH8 upgrade? Example rpm -e
> everything so all packages are gone, hit "reset" button and boot to
> redhat CDROM in admin (rescue?) mode, delete all those config files left,
> like "/etc/*", then do an install BUT NOT FORMAT THAT SINGLE PARTITION
> that I'm installing on. If I can hack the details, is this theory
> accurate, or will RH want to destructively install and elimate all
> existing files?
You're really better off backuping all placed where you know you've hand
edited or installed some files. For me that's only /etc/, /root/ and
/home/. Then you reinstall cleanly, formating "/", put your /home/ files
back into place and you're ready to go.
That's the moment I usually realize I had a nifty tweak to a file in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ or some special parameters added to an
/etc/modules.conf entry... so I look at my backup and make the same change
again. The only thing where you can get stuck is the grub.conf files,
because although there's a /etc/grub.conf link, it's actually in
/boot/grub/ so you may want to copy it too if you have special kernel
parameters to save (I have to pass "pci=bios,biosirq" for one of my
computers to work for example).
HTH,
Matthias
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