On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:46, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Sorry I got into this thread a bit late. Since it looks like you're > already using Partition Magic, just an ethical heads up for future > reference. With the exception of working with NTFS partitions, GNU > parted, in my experience, works much better than PM as far as resizing > goes. It's also a native linux app and is GPL'd therefore making it much > more attractive from the ethical standpoint. And best of all, unlike PM, > it won't butcher your partition numbers.
What exactly do you mean by butcher your partition numbers? I haven't done it yet and might like to try parted - not necessarily for ethical reasons (though I certainly understand what you're saying), but just to learn more about linux. My main concern is that I might mess it up, and the other way seems to be easier. > Since you're using the NT Bootloader, you don't have to worry about your > MBR while resizing. Since you're just going to be working with the tail > end of hda1 nothing before that should be affected. Now, you said you > wanted to take space from hda1 and add it to hda3 right? In this case > you're going to need to resize hda1, then either move or resize hda2 (to > get it next to hda1 again) and then resize hda3. I hope that makes > sense. :) As long as all of your parition numbers remain the same, this > shouldn't be an issue, though I'd make sure you have a boot disk handy > either way. That's sort of what I had intended .. just shrinking hda1, sliding hda2 down, and giving the rest of the room to hda3. I'll definitely have a boot disk .. > I used to use the NT Bootloader myself, but I got tired of needing to go > through two loaders to get to linux so I just put lilo in the MBR. Just > add: > > other=/dev/hda1 > label=Windows <-- or whatever you want the label to be > > to your /etc/lilo.conf. Hmm, I guess that would prevent me from having to `dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1` everytime I recompile the kernel, no? After I add those lines, would all I have to do is `lilo -b /dev/hda`? Thanks for all the info, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]