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I nuked Windoze and moved my Arch partition to the left and expanded it to fill the space. Now, it's still named sda2, but that doesn't matter so much. I am wondering though, I had ntfs-3g setup so I could transfer my files from Windows over to Arch. Now that the windows partition is gone, I'm getting an error on bootup complaining about ntfs-3g and an unknown partition. My question is, is there a way to clean all that up, or, alternatively, can I make my current partition into just a home folder and reinstall the base system? I have a ton of media and personal files I don't want to lose (I originally only had 40 gb for Arch, I didn't want to separate it into a / and /home partitions since I was mostly playing with it at first lol) and I don't really have anywhere to put them.
Thanks,
Nathan
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Look in the /etc/fstab file, there should be an entry like
/dev/sda1 /your/old/windows/mount/point ntfs-3g defaults 0 1the error in the boot sequence is because the bootscripts are trying to mount the now non-existent /dev/sda1 partition.
Just edit /etc/fstab to remove this line and the error will go away, there's no need to re-install just for this issue.
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out of curiosity... Is there a way to rename my Arch partition sda1?
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It might be possible, however, if you have no way of backing up your data I would live with sda2 as the only way I can think of involves using fdisk to remove and re-create the partition. Clearly if anything goes wrong with the fdisk step there's a high probability of losing your data.
Someone else may know of an easier/safer way to do it.
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