On Dec 5, 2007 11:18 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi List; > > I have a laptop running Fedora 7. I can remove the CD drive and insert a tray > which holds an SATA drive in its place, it's a nice feature since it gives me > a second drive connected the same way the CD drive was (i.e. not > USB/firewire) so it's fast. > > I have a spare drive from when I was running FC5, It has multiple file systems > on it (/boot, /home, /var, etc). > > I want to re-vamp it so I end up with a single file system on it which > encompasses the full drive. I suspect I need to use rmfs to remove each file > system and then mkfs to create a single fs on the drive but I'm quite > unfamiliar with the fs commands. > > Is this the best approach? any gotcha's, etc? Can I do this with the second > drive un-mounted? > > Anyone have any helpful examples of usage for rmfs and mkfs ? > > Thanks in advance... > The best solution I can recommend is downloading and using 'gparted'. It gives a complete easy graphical way of modifying partitions (without losing data in some configurations). Very user friendly. LiveCD also available: http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ -Mauriat
