[H-GEN] confusion re device namings

[Mark Suter]

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Clinton,

> I know I'll get into trouble for this, but I've been getting rid of my 
> (badly sized) partitions for /home /usr etc and just been shoving them 
> all in the one partition, currently I've got:
> 
> hda1  Boot  Primary  Linux ext2   2944.66    
> hda5        Logical  Linux ext2   1266.70
> hda6        Logical  Linux swap  98.71

Please, post the output to "/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda" if it
differs from this in any way.  Don't proceed if you partition
table is not "sane".

> everything of mine is currently on hda5, and I want to move it to
> hda1, repartition and then try out ext2resize.

I'm assuming you want two partitions, the root filesystem
and swap.

> risky, yes, but i have backups :)

Have you done a compare?

> now, the problem is, how do I make a file system on hda1?
> When I boot up, some part of the kernel maps hda5 to hda1, why, i
> don't know...

The following will duplicate the root filesystem on /dev/hda1.

    /sbin/mkfs -V -t ext2 -v /dev/hda1
    /bin/mkdir -p /mnt/new_root
    /bin/mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/new_root
    cd /mnt/new_root
    /sbin/dump 0f - / | /sbin/restore rf -
    cd /
    /bin/umount /mnt/new_root

Yours sincerely,

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