On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Marc Resnick wrote: > >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 >
John, I'm partly afraid of using Partition Magic now. Last time I created a FAT32 partition, I couldn't delete it. I permanently(or at least permanently for my knowledge) screwed up fstab, and had to reinstall linux, then use diskdrake to successfully delete the partition. But If I just resize the NTFS partition with PM, I could safely use diskdrake to create the partition at the end of the Extended, am I correct? --Marc > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > Part 1.1 > > > > Content-Type: > > > > text/plain > > Content-Encoding: > > > > 7BIT > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > message.footer > > > > Content-Type: > > > > text/plain > > Content-Encoding: > > > > 8bit
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