Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me.
1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows Partition.
2. Boot Linux, use Diskdrake to create a partition from the free space, place it at the end of the sector.(I want to use Linux to do this so it 'knows' that I added this partition. Last time I think the problem was that it took mdk by surprise, screwing up the labels.)
3. Do ln /home/marc /mnt/nameofpartition
Sound good?
I would not do this.
If windows and linux are on the same hard drive then use PM for all partitoning.
If they are on seperate hard drives use PM on windows HD, and diskdrake on Linux HD.
If you use PM on windblows HD then format all partitions initially with FAT32 and let PM give each partition a volume lable.
Then, when in diskdrake of Linux install, reformat the already partitioned HD with linux formatting tools, but don't let it do any partitioning itself.
If you have a linux only HD, then use diskdrake to do both partition and formatting.
So plan what you are going to do and follow that scheme of things.
The one thing I always avoid is mixing partition tools on the same hard drive.
Others disagree with me, but I have always found this to be the case and doing
this I avoid all kinds of messups that take 5 times as much time to repair than if
I had taken an 'n'th more time and trouble in the first place.
I believe there are good solid reasons not to mix partition tools on the same HD.
It is not just the method used to calculate partition sizes, but dos naming conventions
as well. Hmm, you might say , who cares about dos naming convention, dos is history.
Not so, some modern OS's still need certain uptodate dos naming conventions,
eg. One primary. One extended dos partition, containing any number of logical
dos partitions) old dos naming convention does not follow that pattern.
I believe Diskdrake does the old dos naming convention and can be the cause of grief.
So Diskdrake creates,
Up to 4 primary dos partitions, one extended containing any number of logicals.
At the end of the day you want hard drives whose partitioning sizing is consistantly
measured. Hard drives that follow modern dos naming convention.
I have always followed the abovementioned rules and find them to be trouble free.
No install refusals, no messed up partitions wasteful in dead HD space.
I had a tiny old HD that I partition entirely with W2K just to see what dos naming
convention resulted , that is how I learnt about modern dos naming convention.
Then of course if I had usedthe old dos fdisk I can choose , but neither of these two
partition tools can save existing data. So don't bother with them.
If you have PM use it on the windblows HD to do all partitioning and initally format them
with FAT32 and give the partitions a volume lable. then format the partitions allocated
to linux with diskdrake during the linux install.
John
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