by >I have received excellent help from you gurus in the past, and I'm
>dipping into the well once more...
>I have a 775M drive. Total.
>/dev/hda1 is FAT -- 250M
>/dev/hda2 is Swap -- 32M
>/dev/hda3 is ext2 -- the rest.
>So I'm running low on ext2 space.
>I know I can convert /hda1 to ext2 with mkfs, and I am ready to do that.
>(There's nothing on it I want to keep, BTW.)
>BUT...
>I would like to attach /hda1 as /usr/local, which already exists as a
>subdirectory of /hda3.
>IF I have room (and I do)
>CAN I: copy the contents of /usr/local to /hda1 (currently mounted at a
>/dos mount point), delete the contents of /usr/local, and then set
>/dev/hda1 to mount at the /usr/local mount point?
>What think you folks?
>Will this work?
>thanx--
>james carpenter
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1) You make your FAT partition into ext2 partition Before copying files over.
2) Copy the files over and make sure that you can mount and use /usr/local
Before you delete the old one.
3) Use the correct cp. Read the man page. I think 'cp -a' will give you what
you want.