Am Di, den 10.02.2004 schrieb Adam Cooper um 11:16:
> 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.
It is your problem.
> 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.
Switch to runlevel 1 by entering "init 1", then copy the content of
/usr/local to a different place on your disk, umount /dev/hda7, format
the partition with ext3, edit /etc/fstab to fit the new filesystem,
mount /dev/hda7, push back the previously copied data to /usr/local.
Done. You now can go back to your standard runlevel, might be 5 as you
use X, by entering "init 5".
Alexander
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