----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 9:38
AM
Subject: [newbie] Unanswered
Question
I asked a question last week about
repartitioning a hard disk. No one answered me. Could at least
someone write me and tell me if the problem is that (A) no one can answer my
question or (B) my question was so stupid I never should have asked it in
the first place and I am a big Linux loser.
Thank you,
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:40 PM
Subject: Repartitioning Petition
Hello Newbie Advisors. Here is my story:
First I had Windows NT on my C
disk. Then I installed Linux on that disk, i.e. NT in the
first partition, and then 3 for Linux. I now have gotten a D drive and
have installed another Linux installation on that drive. The D
drive has 3 partitions, one for Linux / one for Linux /home and one for
NT. I used the existing swap partition on my C drive for my D drive
Linux installation. I read that it's best to have the swap on a separate
drive if possible. (The exact partition order on C is: NT, swap, /,
/home and D is /, NT, /home)
What I want to do now is to repartition
the / and /home partitions from my C drive (i.e. partitions 3 and 4) and make
them into one partition and make them available to NT.
When I initially
installed Linux I just used the program that comes on the CD for partitioning
(the one that runs from the command line--fdisk maybe?) and I re-partitioned
the C drive without negatively affecting NT.
I thought I could just go
back and do that again and be able to repartition without affecting NT on C or
Linux on D.
1 Is this a reasonable plan?
2 What do I need to do to
let my Linux on D know that I removed partitions two from C (i.e. Linux on D
currently mounts those partitions)
3 Lilo currently is able to boot into NT
and Linux on C and Linux on D. I assume that I can just edit lilo.conf
to remove the Linux on C and then run lilo -v and lilo will be
happy.
Thank you for your help,