On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 09:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Hello? Why on earth is /usr/local a vfat (fat32 presumably) formatted? > vfat does not know anything about symlinks, it's NO LINUX filesystem. > Exactly that I assumed in my previous posting yesterday. Yep I suppose that could be the problem :-|. I apologise for innate stupidity. This i suppose leads me onto my final question. How can I reformat to ext3 without losing all the data on /usr/local/? Can I do it without a re-install? It's taken me a week to get the computer sorted and I don't really want to have to go through it all again.
