Lukas Ocilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robby (M9.) wrote: >>>> If you use the partitioner from yast, which i do, you are not able to >>>> throw away, and recreate partitions, >>> This _is_ possible - and I did this (on a 10.1 system) successfully. >> >> This is not what i mean: >> suppose you have 8 partitions: /boot, /root, /usr, /opt, /var, swap, >> /home and /shared. >> Now you want to make changes to 5 of them. >> You will have to trow them away, to recreate them, there is, as far as i >> know, no other way. >> Simply because if you want more room in one, it goes by the cost of the >> next one. >> How will you be able to make these changes and keep 3 of them, without >> counting the cylinders? >> I do not know... > > `yast2 disk` > There is a [Resize] button that you can use for resizing primary or > extended partitions or LVM. Yes, there is a problem that these > partitions must _not_ be mounted when you want to resize them. > > You can resize the partition also during installation but, I'm afraid, > that not during update. > >>> Hmm, I had no problems - maybe you should provide more details (and/or >>> upload some screenshots somewhere ;-) >> >> If you can throw everything away, certainly, there is no problem at all.. >> If you do not want to throw away your settings, and all the files you >> want to keep, you will have to save them somewhere else, or burn them. >> >> There is also no problem, if you want to keep your partitions the same >> size, and only want to format them. >> This is my workaround. >> >> I do not know if you have ever used Partition Magic? >> That would make my story more clear... >> Sometimes, after experimenting with sizes, you learn, that sizes better >> can be adjusted, to get the room, wherever it is realy needed. >> Especialy when the OS builds realy change, it is nessesary to adjust the >> partitions to the correct size. >> (the why is that the machine is much faster if the systems searchtime is >> shortened. (You can keep drivers and nessesary .exes (windows)And is >> much easier to clean. I noticed that after using no partitions.) >> Not to use seperate partitions is out of the question, for me >> >> Partition Magic, from powerquest, is also thirthparty sw for windows. >> Can be used to: resize, move, delete, create partitions, on a visual basis. >> It counts the transactions, and processes them before starting up, >> when nothing is in use. >> It moves the data, resizes and renames, and that is it. >> Never had a problem with it. > > Partition Magic sometimes needs to be run before the system is loaded > but changes needs to be set in a running system, that's also not so > nice. Nevertheless it has quite nice UI, that's true. > > AJ: Maybe it would make sense to have a special image on CD/DVD > (possibly executable from Linuxrc) that would contain some r/w YaST > modules, especially the partitioner. Just to tune the system. > > This could also solve our problem "installing openSUSE on computers with > little memory" because one could prepare a swap partition before running > the installation and Linuxrc (installation) offers the possibility to > enable swap partition by appending a parameter to command-line.
The LiveCD should be able to do this - but that one needs to much memory for these systems. Something to look at for the future... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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