In order to format it you need to do a:
su
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3
next you need to mount it somewhere and copy your home over:
mkdir /crap
mount /dev/hda3 /crap
cp -R /home /crap
umount /crap
rmdir /crap
next you need to edit your /etc/fstab. Email that out if you need help
with that.


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:52:16 -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur
<tigerflag@tigerflag.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 September 2004 10:37 am, Alexander Henry wrote:
> 
> > RSVP's are nice, but get there RSVP or no.
> 
> I'll be there, God willing, but I may actually need some help if I don't get
> this system installed right today. My boss has me installing a Vector
> Linux-based (Slackware-based) linux on an old box at work. I made a partition
> for / and a large one for /home, but it never formatted the large partition,
> and put everything into the / partition.
> 
> I need to format the large partition in ext3 and make it the /home partition,
> but don't know all the commands to do it.
> 
> / is /dev/hda1
> swap is /dev/hda2
> /home will be on /dev/hda3
> 
> If someone can tell me the steps to take and the commands to use to do this,
> then hopefully I can just help tomorrow instead of taking up resources on my
> own problem. thanks!
> 
> Siri Amrit
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