How do I do it? (altering the mount points)

[Basil Chupin]

On 07/05/10 00:30, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>
>     But what I want is to have this directory tree to show in local case -
>     windows/D - with fstab also showing 'windows' in lower case.
>
>     Using PartedMagic I went in and altered all the capitalised references
>     to Windows to lower case in fstab and the directory tree.
>
>
> I don't understand why you would use PartedMagic to do any of this.
>
> Renaming files and folders (whether they are mount points or not) is 
> very easy.  Either from command line or file manager.
>
> In fact, you could easily have just create /windows/D and unmounted 
> the partition mounted against /Windows/D and remounted it to /Windows/D.
>
> Even easier if you edited /etc/fstab to do this.
>
> No rebooting, no repartitioning.  It has nothing to do with partitions 
> at all.
>
> What am I missing?

PartedMagic (I guess it is also called Gparted?) has mc (midnight 
commander). So, without having to unmount anything all one has to do is 
to mount the partition containing the operating system (in my case 
/dev/sda9) and edit not only the directory tree (from Windows>windows) 
but fstab as well.

BC


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