Re: partition magic

[Shawn Mattingly <smattin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert J. Kent wrote:

> > Now, where's your Linux partition? Is it a primary or logical partition?
>
> the linux partition is primary and it's at the END of the disk, so i can't
> just tell it to eat up some more space.  i think i was unclear in my last
> message: i don't intend to erase some of the DOS information and glue it
> onto the linux partition; i want to erase one of the DOS logical partitions
> and reformat that space as linux native, then mount the *new* ext2 partition
> as /usr.

No problem.  You can do that with fdisk (to change the partition type), mke2fs (to
hose the DOS filesytem, and create something better) and then mount -t ext2
/dev/<insert partition here> /usr.  Of course, then you will have to put everything
that was in your /usr directory on the new partition, but you probably already knew
that :-)

Shawn