right syntax?

[Erick Calder]

I've installed parted-1.2.8-2 on my RH7.0 system and need a little advice.
I have my /boot partition on /dev/hda1 and my root (/) on /dev/hdc6... (see
configuration information below).  there's also a swap partition on
/dev/hdc7.  what I want to do is free up hdc by moving the / and swap
partitions to hda..

I'm a bit worried as I haven't done this before and this is, after all, the
root.  here's what I think I need to do:

1. # parted /dev/hdc
(parted) cp 6 /dev/hda 2
(parted) cp 7 /dev/hda 3

2. modify the lilo.conf to have:

root=/dev/hda2

instead of:

root=/dev/hdc6

3. run lilo -v

4. reboot and pray

can anyone tell me whether I'm missing anything?

1k thx - erick

btw, the docs at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER

need refreshing... the syntax for cp stated there is:

        cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR

but this is no longer right.

Also, I can't figure out how to create a new partition... what's wrong with
my statement below?

# parted /dev/had
(parted) mkpart "primary" 271.7 523.7
  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition

        PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended
        FS-TYPE is one of: FAT, ext2, linux-swap
        START and END are in megabytes

        mkpart makes a partition without creating a new file system on the
        partition.  FS-TYPE must be specified for data partitions (as
opposed to
        extended partitions).  This command is useful if you accidently
deleted
        a partition.

--- system
configuration --------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

# fdisk /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         5     20128+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             6        69    258048   83  Linux

# fdisk /dev/hdc

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *         1     18266   9206032+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2         18267     39870  10888416    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5         18267     18787    262552+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc6         18788     19308    262552+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc7         19309     19829    262552+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdc8         19830     39870  10100632+  8e  Linux LVM

and:

# cat /etc/lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9
        label=linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/hdc6

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
        label=RH-2.2.16-22
        read-only
        root=/dev/hdc6