Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question
On Friday 05 May 2006 18:38, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question': im concerned that some data, configuration etc may depend on or expect to be locate at a certain physical location on disk... The only thing that should depend on that is lilo. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpOJcIBh2s1e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question
Ok so i cant move swap into the 10Gbs i set aside for microstink at the end of the disk, so to move my root linux partition forward, should I be able to tar the entire filesystem from a livecd for example, then delete and recreate the partitions as needed, then untar the tarred filesystem into the new relocated partition? im concerned that some data, configuration etc may depend on or expect to be locate at a certain physical location on disk... On 5/4/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400, Leigh Stewart wrote: I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat unnerving experience because in order to resize using cfdisk u have to delete then recreate the partition, which wasn't clearly documented anywhere... Anyway, now Ive got a problem because my disk at the moment has 3 primary partitions, 1 boot part., 1 swap part, and one root part. for gentoo. the problem is i cant create a new primary partition which i need to do if i want to install windows beside gentoo, which i also need to do. You can have 4 primary partitions. That is not a problem. Unless the last partition begins after the 1024 cylinder boundary. In which case M$ will not be happy. does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and swap partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside a single primary partition? has anyone attempted this? it occurs to me that that would be the simplest solution... Setting up an extended partition scheme would work fine. However, using cfdisk, you cannot make the conversion without losing data. Because of reiser, even a program like Partition Magic (the best for this sort of manipulation) can't work. Given your current setup, here's what I would do. Move swap to the last partition, Linux to 3, M$ to 2, and leave boot. If you use grub, you can program it to boot M$ easily. anyone have any other ideas? Yes. Backup. Then Backup. Then Backup again! -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question
i found an even better solution... credit goes to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Windows_after_Gentoo#Installing_Windows (gentoo really shines in the support department) turns out that although windows will not create a new partition at the end of the disk, it has no problem installing to an existing partition at the end of the disk. i went in with my live cd, created the partition, and then asked ntldr or w/e to install windows there and it worked just fine. thanks for the helpful comments :) On 5/5/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so i cant move swap into the 10Gbs i set aside for microstink at the end of the disk, so to move my root linux partition forward, should I be able to tar the entire filesystem from a livecd for example, then delete and recreate the partitions as needed, then untar the tarred filesystem into the new relocated partition? im concerned that some data, configuration etc may depend on or expect to be locate at a certain physical location on disk... On 5/4/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400, Leigh Stewart wrote: I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat unnerving experience because in order to resize using cfdisk u have to delete then recreate the partition, which wasn't clearly documented anywhere... Anyway, now Ive got a problem because my disk at the moment has 3 primary partitions, 1 boot part., 1 swap part, and one root part. for gentoo. the problem is i cant create a new primary partition which i need to do if i want to install windows beside gentoo, which i also need to do. You can have 4 primary partitions. That is not a problem. Unless the last partition begins after the 1024 cylinder boundary. In which case M$ will not be happy. does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and swap partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside a single primary partition? has anyone attempted this? it occurs to me that that would be the simplest solution... Setting up an extended partition scheme would work fine. However, using cfdisk, you cannot make the conversion without losing data. Because of reiser, even a program like Partition Magic (the best for this sort of manipulation) can't work. Given your current setup, here's what I would do. Move swap to the last partition, Linux to 3, M$ to 2, and leave boot. If you use grub, you can program it to boot M$ easily. anyone have any other ideas? Yes. Backup. Then Backup. Then Backup again! -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
