Hi guys, i’ve finally installed Osuse on my notebook, but now i don’t see my hard disk partition, i’m only seeing file system.
I’ve two partitions, one mounted in “/” and one mounted in “/usr” i want to use one of these such as backup partition, but, how cna i do that? the two partition are mounted but, where are?
1 is File system, but the second? sry for my bad english guys…
You can see all your partitions, mounted and unmounted, with this command (in a console): sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
You can see all your mounted partitions and the directories where they are mounted with this command: df -Th
If you want to use one of these as a backup partition you simply look in your filesystem in the directory where the chosen partition is mounted, and that is where you place the data that you want to backup. Remember though to back up data from one physical partition into a physically different partition.
Remember also to avoid circular redundancy; i.e. don’t back up a directory into part of itself. For example don’t back up the directory tree under / into say /backup.
Does that help? If not, please describe in greater detail what data you wish to back up and from which directory – plus post also what mounted partitions do you have by copying here the output from the command: df -Th.
To add to Swerdna’s post there is also the graphical Patritioner tool in YaST.
You can also use it to set or modify mount points for your existing partitions as well as delete/remove/etc.
As always, be careful with the options you’ve set and double check before applying.
Cheers,
Wj