I used DrakX to shrink a windows partition in Mandrake 7.0 and 7.0. It
created funny partition errors for me that didn't seem to do anything.
Then, when trying to install Mdk 7.2, DrakX couldn't read the partition
table, although I could boot into Windows OK. So, as the default seems
to be an extended DOS partition for all DrakX reformatting... even on an
empty disk, I now select my partition type and keep away from the DOS
extended.
I'd love to install Windows on a reiserfs but without a cd burner... I
don't want to lose my Windows system files and registry, as I did when I
was using a part of it for a /usr/local partition and couldn't upgrade
or reinstall Mandrake because of a corrupt, unreadable partition table.
Will there come a time when DrakX is stable enough to use to shrink a
FAT 32 partition and put a linux or reiser one there without risking the
partition table?
--
Anna
pablito wrote:
>
> I have not tried to make a linux partition with anything past 7.2 but I
> didn't find it a good idea to use DrakX. The program created a linux
> partition as part of an extended Dos partition instead of shrinking the Dos
> partition and making its own linux partition. Later examination with
> various diagnostic utilities found funny errors in the partition tables,
> which didn't seem to do anything bad but were worrisome. Maybe there is
> nothing wrong with having a linux partition sit in the extended Dos
> partition but it makes me nervous. I use a 3rd party utility to create
> separate linux partitions and then use DrakX to reformat them to reiser or
> whatever. maybe someone more knowledgeable about partitioning than me can
> explain whether it really makes that much difference.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Use the free space on the Windows partition
>
> >"Mattias Dahlberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Does this option in DrakX work for anyone? I've tried it a few times
> during
> >> the last month (Cooker) and everytime it just freezes and I can't click
> OK or
> >> anything at the Warnings dialog. I've run scandisk and defrag in Windows
> as
> >> suggested. Is it just me or is it everyone?
> >
> >should be working. I will test...
> >
> >
