On Tuesday 23 March 2004 14:02, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > i was just delivered a lovely preinstalled system. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shino]# uname -a > Linux tuxedo 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003 i686 athlon > i386 GNU/Linux > > the only > problem is that it has only one data partition.
I cant reallt call it a problem but here goes. There is absolutly nothing wrong in having one data partition, its a question of personal taste > what i'd really like is 5-6 partitions something like: You already have /boot and /swap which is really all you need. Other may well argue that partitions for /var /home /usr/local/src so on and so on may well be nesassary because thats the way it used to be on some distro's, however times change disks get bigger situations change, this situation certainly has changed as disk size is thesedays (under normal curcumstancies) large enough. Now i am presuming your disk has been fully used, if that is so then you dont have any room to create new partitions, you can resize the biggest partition however it is not 100% safe to do so, (thats what they say, i have never tryed with linux partitions), data loss cannot be ruled out, altho it is considered safe to do such things caution and backups are a must. Now if you have a second disk you can partion it to suit your needs, all i am saying is if it works why break it. A second disk elininates repartitioning problems and data loss. > > / > /home > /local > /data > /boot2 > /swap > > what's my best best to make this happen? fips? fdisk? > disk druid? something on the fedora install disks? None of the above unless you have some unpartitioned room on the disk in question. AFAIK fips is for FAT partitions (msdos) fdisk is only for creating new (when there is room) and deleting old partitions. disk-druid (AFAIK) idem dito. > > this is what it looks like now. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shino]# df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 190140 7085 173397 4% / > /dev/hda1 99 7 88 7% /boot > none 505 0 505 0% /dev/shm > You have 3 partitions, we cant see if you have any spare room without the output of fdisk fdisk -l /dev/hda > thanks so kindly in advance! > > -rei -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
