Hello,

Newbie here,

I copied an ex3 partition to a new disk using "cp -ax"
and it all works ok. Then I inserted a partition
so that my device /mnt/hda5 is now called /mnt/hda6.
I could move/re-install everything, but I prefer to keep
it as it is for now and I was wondering
if there was some short cut way of telling Linux in some
configuration file to treat
/mnt/hda6 as /mnt/hda5 and vice versa
before it boots up.

Thanks.

e7 wrote:

> I copied an ex3 partition to a new disk using "cp -ax"
> and it all works ok. Then I inserted a partition
> so that my device /mnt/hda5 is now called /mnt/hda6.
> I could move/re-install everything, but I prefer to keep
> it as it is for now and I was wondering
> if there was some short cut way of telling Linux in some
> configuration file to treat
> /mnt/hda6 as /mnt/hda5 and vice versa
> before it boots up.

My standard procedure is:
change fstab
change lilo.conf
lilo -v
reboot

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e7 wrote:

> I was wondering
> if there was some short cut way of telling Linux in some
> configuration file to treat
> /mnt/hda6 as /mnt/hda5 and vice versa
> before it boots up.

.... "before" it boots up, as in a dynamic sort of way?
or just a one-time shot? for the one-time shot, edit
the /etc/fstab file
..
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Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:

> e7 wrote:
>
>> I copied an ex3 partition to a new disk using "cp -ax"
>> and it all works ok. Then I inserted a partition
>> so that my device /mnt/hda5 is now called /mnt/hda6.
>> I could move/re-install everything, but I prefer to keep
>> it as it is for now and I was wondering
>> if there was some short cut way of telling Linux in some
>> configuration file to treat
>> /mnt/hda6 as /mnt/hda5 and vice versa
>> before it boots up.
>
> My standard procedure is:
> change fstab
> change lilo.conf
> lilo -v
> reboot

Thanks - afer reading up it was enough to fix
the problems.

J