On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 05:23:33PM +0530, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
- Move all data from the Fat 32 partition to another machine on the
network. 2. As root issue mkfs -j /dev/hda6
Thus clobbering the partition. As long as step 1 was performed properly, it should be okay.
Questions: Am I on the right track?
Yes.
Are there any pitfalls I need to be aware of?
As long as they are data files, and not for example a Windows installation or other weirdness (like I don't know, files that need to be in a particular position on disk, or something), it'll be okay.
What changes do I need to make in /etc/fstab? The current entry for this partition is: /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat defaults 0 0
You might want to change /mnt/win_d to something else. Make sure you create the new mount point if it doesn't exist already. I like to name these extra partitions after their partition number, so I'd have something like /mnt/hda6. But that's just me.
Change vfat to ext3.
I am running Fedora Core 3 on /dev/hda8 with a /boot partition on /dev/hda5 and a swap on /dev/hda7. As you may have guessed, /dev/hda6 was the D drive from a previous (now scrapped) installation of Windows. /dev/hda1 (the original Windows C drive) is now a ReiserFS partition waiting to have Suse 9.2 installed as soon as I have the DVD iso downloaded (wget -c is busy working in the background as we speak).
Bittorrent.