On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:47:27 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...)
> The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and > they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 installation (before I > installed Debian 6 on the system), and I need to know how to access them > as a user, to move and write data to them. (...) For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". You basically need two things: - Set the right permission options for the mount point so users can read/ write/whatever - Create a mount point in your system with the right permissions You can do these two things as you prefer, that is, by manually editing the "/etc/fstab" file and set the mount point permissions using the command line or using GUI tools. I prefer to do these things manually to have more control over the steps :-) > The next problem may be a bit more difficult (or, unable to be solved). > > In my primary partition, I have three partitions. I have a hardware > manufacturer's partition, a recovery partition, and, as the computer > came with MS Windows, a Windows partition, which is 84GB. In addition to the explanation, show us the output of: fdisk -l So we can have an idea of the current state of your hard disk partitions. > Having inmstalled Ubuntu and Debian 6, I want to experiment with a > different operating system, which requires to be installed in a primary > partition (otherwise, I could instal it in one of the unused > partitions). What recent operating system needs to be installed still in a primary partition? Can you tell what OS are you going to install? (...) > So, please advise whetehr I can now adjust the primary partition sda3, > to shrink it to 42Gb and create another primary partition; sda4, that I > could use to instal and run another operating system. Operations with partitions are always dangerous and can lead to data loss (always make a full backup before playing with this) and can be handled by Gparted from a LiveCD (that is, from a non-running system) but your options will depend on your current partition layout. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jkcvlp$lch$9...@dough.gmane.org
