Hi list, I just discovered Grml recently. I want to install it on my laptop's hard drive, using grml2hd. The laptop already runs Slackware 11.0. I chose a really lousy partitioning scheme when I installed Slackware: /dev/hda1, /boot, approx 40Mb /dev/hda2, swap, approx 512 Mb /dev/hda3, /, the remaining 19.5 Gb
I don't want to get rid of /home when I install Grml, because it holds several gigabytes of assorted files. Is it possible to make grml2hd install to /dev/hda3 without destroying /home?
PS, this is a good argument for having separate / and /home partitions; wish I had done that on the laptop!
-- Chris
* C.M. Brannon cmbrannon@cox.net [20070311 04:15]:
I just discovered Grml recently. I want to install it on my laptop's hard drive, using grml2hd. The laptop already runs Slackware 11.0. I chose a really lousy partitioning scheme when I installed Slackware: /dev/hda1, /boot, approx 40Mb /dev/hda2, swap, approx 512 Mb /dev/hda3, /, the remaining 19.5 Gb
I don't want to get rid of /home when I install Grml, because it holds several gigabytes of assorted files. Is it possible to make grml2hd install to /dev/hda3 without destroying /home?
Generic answer: no.
Hacker's answer without any guaranty (everyone has backups, right? :)): adjusting the initialize() function within /usr/sbin/grml2hd (deactivating the $MKFS and tune2fs lines) might do what you want.
regards, -mika-
Am Sonntag, den 11.03.2007, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Prokop:
- C.M. Brannon cmbrannon@cox.net [20070311 04:15]:
I just discovered Grml recently. I want to install it on my laptop's hard drive, using grml2hd. The laptop already runs Slackware 11.0. I chose a really lousy partitioning scheme when I installed Slackware: /dev/hda1, /boot, approx 40Mb /dev/hda2, swap, approx 512 Mb /dev/hda3, /, the remaining 19.5 Gb
I don't want to get rid of /home when I install Grml, because it holds several gigabytes of assorted files. Is it possible to make grml2hd install to /dev/hda3 without destroying /home?
Generic answer: no.
Hacker's answer without any guaranty (everyone has backups, right? :)): adjusting the initialize() function within /usr/sbin/grml2hd (deactivating the $MKFS and tune2fs lines) might do what you want.
Wouldn't it be a better way to shrink the / partition and create your own /home partition? Than you can copy your actual /home to this new partition. This depends on the used fs (for ext3, reiserfs or something similar this shouldn't be a problem) but afterwards you would have solved your problems and would have your "wished" /home partition ;)
Once again, this solution doesn't replace a working backup!
greetings michael
Michael Prokop mika@grml.org writes:
- C.M. Brannon cmbrannon@cox.net [20070311 04:15]:
I don't want to get rid of /home when I install Grml, because it holds several gigabytes of assorted files. Is it possible to make grml2hd install to /dev/hda3 without destroying /home?
Generic answer: no.
Hacker's answer without any guaranty (everyone has backups, right? :)): adjusting the initialize() function within /usr/sbin/grml2hd (deactivating the $MKFS and tune2fs lines) might do what you want.
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I ended up doing a fresh install with grml2hd, and copying the home partition from my primary system to my laptop with rsync. That worked as well as anything.
BTW, Grml is great! I'm a blind user. After putting the CD in the drive and typing "grml swspeak", I had software speech. Now I can turn anybody's boring Windows box into a talking Linux system... Very cool!
-- Chris
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