Is it possible to change the mount points without formatting the drive or reinstalling the OS?

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 07 June 2009 01:29:09 am steven vollom wrote:
> On Sunday 07 June 2009 12:10:03 am David McGlone wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 June 2009 04:50:45 pm steven vollom wrote:

> When I installed the '/' partition, I used 20gb for size which after
> installation appears to be a little over 17gb.  It currently has 14.7gb of
> unused space after moving the movies to /dev/sda2.  The balance of the
> 80GiB HDD contains all the data that has been saved in the new installation
> and shows a remainder of storage space as 43.7GiB.
>
> Of the 200GiB HDD, /dev/sdb2 is the 99gb partition which after partitioning
> shows a balance of space as 86.8GiB (but has no data stored in it).  The
> other 100gb partition of the 200GiB HDD, and is also empty, shows a balance
> of space at 90.2GiB.  You now have an accurate description of my computer's
> partitions.
>
> Now here is the fstab, which totally confuses me when I look at it:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> UUID=6747e921-8b72-4f24-b6a8-c86c919d869a /               ext3
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
> UUID=cc9ed070-52d6-41df-81f4-985108e1436d none            swap    sw
> 0       0
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
>
> Here is what I intended and really want as my partitioning setup, if it is
> possible through editing fstab:

Ok we are going to have to stop right here. I was under the impression that 
you had already set up your other partitions (home, svpersonal and backup) but 
apparently you have only set up a root partition.

So this changes the scenario, and puts you in a position where you have 2 
choices. You can either re-install 1 more time and make sure you set up your 
partitions this time around, or you can try resizing them, which I never do, 
because sometimes resizing can corrupt partitions, especially on a Winbloze 
system.

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Blessings,
David M.
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