[newbie] Repartitioning
Hi is ther ean easy was to repartition your linux hard drive? I used to have a windows partition, which I've now deleted. I'd like to use this free space thogh for my / and /home partitions How would I go about doing this? Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] repartitioning
Hi, I accidentally only have 1 linux partition, /dev/hde1 For some reason DiskDrake didn't allow me to rearrange that partition during the install, I chose expert install and the Auto Allocate option in DiskDrake just gave me an error message [forgot what it was] . And now I'd like to introduce /swap and /home partitions. Can you provide me with any help on that? Can diskdrake do it now after the install or would I have to use fdisk (!!!) or buy PartitionMagic? Thanks, Narfi. For the record: I have 2 hard drives, /dev/hda and /dev/hde and fdisk -l gives: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1535 12329856c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 1536 1650923737+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1536 1650923706b Win95 FAT32 Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 38790 19550128+ 83 Linux /dev/hde2 38791 77543 19531260f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 7, 63) should be (1023, 15, 63) /dev/hde5 38791 77543 19531228+ b Win95 FAT32
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
That's interesting. I havn't needed to use their support, but now I hope I never need it. I hate it when I spend that kind of cash then get left out on my own. I only paid $70.00 for my copy, but that's a lot for just binary code, even if it works as well as PM has for me. Ernie On Thu, 28 Oct 1999,Ron Marriage wrote: | I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it | cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65. | I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions. | It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed | with fips during original mandrake install in version 5.3. | I currently run 6.0 | | Powerquest tech support has been less than helpful. I get | put on hold for 45 to 60 minutes when I call, and after | several calls and multiple emails over almost 4 weeks, I'm | still no closer to getting partition magic to read the | table. tech support now no longer responds to emails. | | Ron | | | Brian Whitman wrote: | | --- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive. | | There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning | progrm called fips. | It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If | not you can get it | at the Mandrake ftp site or | ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils | | If that won't work, I downloaded all the files and | directories | associated with fips and I can send you a zip file. | Just e-mail me. I | haven't used fips because I have Partition | Commander, but I thought I'd | let you know it's available. | | Sam Walker | | | Partition Magic is a easy and safe way to partition | your drives. This is what I used and it was no | trouble at all. The program only cost around $20 | bucks and is well worth it! | | Brian | | | | = | | __ | Do You Yahoo!? | Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com | | -- | | Ron Marriage | E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
Yes fips does do a non-destructive resize. The interface is a quite like the
fdisk (linux) interface. Make sure you read the README first or else you
might not know what you need at different stages of the re-partitioning.
Hope this helps.
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:24:00AM +, Ron Marriage wrote:
I am using Version 4 and it is supposed to do a
non-destructive partition changes in windows and linux.
DiskDrake looks nice but does a destructive resize and I
have my linux tweeked and tuned the way I want it. While I
could reinstall, I wanted to avoid that, thus the purchase
of Partition Magic.
Sounds like you had the same problem, it doesn't see my
window partition correctly either.
What did you do with fips to make it see it.
Does fips do a non-destructive resize on windows and linux
partitions?
Ron
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Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
Thanks, I wasn't aware fips could do a non-destructive resize. I'd used it before to create partitions, but never resizing. You just saved me a ton of work. Appreciate it. Ron Jackal wrote: Yes fips does do a non-destructive resize. The interface is a quite like the fdisk (linux) interface. Make sure you read the README first or else you might not know what you need at different stages of the re-partitioning. Hope this helps. -- Ron Marriage E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
--- "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting. I havn't needed to use their support, but now I hope I never need it. I hate it when I spend that kind of cash then get left out on my own. I only paid $70.00 for my copy, but that's a lot for just binary code, even if it works as well as PM has for me. Ernie On Thu, 28 Oct 1999,Ron Marriage wrote: | I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it | cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65. | I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions. | It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed | with fips during original mandrake install in version 5.3. | I currently run 6.0 | | Powerquest tech support has been less than helpful. I get | put on hold for 45 to 60 minutes when I call, and after | several calls and multiple emails over almost 4 weeks, I'm | still no closer to getting partition magic to read the | table. tech support now no longer responds to emails. | | Ron | | | Brian Whitman wrote: | | --- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive. | | There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning | progrm called fips. | It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If | not you can get it | at the Mandrake ftp site or | ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils | | If that won't work, I downloaded all the files and | directories | associated with fips and I can send you a zip file. | Just e-mail me. I | haven't used fips because I have Partition | Commander, but I thought I'd | let you know it's available. | | Sam Walker | | | Partition Magic is a easy and safe way to partition | your drives. This is what I used and it was no | trouble at all. The program only cost around $20 | bucks and is well worth it! | | Brian | | | | = | | __ | Do You Yahoo!? | Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com | | -- | | Ron Marriage | E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage When using PM I find that the easiest thing to do is right click on the table and select resize-move form list. Make the size partiton you want and then right click it again to create the type of partition you want fat32 or linux, linux-swap. You need to do this for each partition type. I used PM and had no problems with it. Install it into windows first then install linux into the created partition. Reboot into windows install bootmagic and everything should work fine. Hope this helps some. Brian = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
That's not what I want to do. I already have linux and windows partitions with running OSes in each. I need to resize them, make windows much smaller, linux much bigger. Partition Magic gives a check failed message and right clicks or menu options don't work. Tech support said partition first extended beyond end of HD. Changed this but then even partition magic wouldn't start. We reset back to original, Changed them again to eliminate free space at end of HD. PM still gave a check failed error but but now said partitions overlapped and check still failed. After contacting Powerquest tech support by phone and email, they had me run several copies of info program and send the report to them. After several weeks, I've stopped hearing from them and they no longer respond to email. The last email I got was 10 days ago, saying they got the report and would look at it and respond the next day. It's OK, I was told fips does a non-destructive resize and I'll use it. PM will be just another windows program I can delete, grin Thanks for all the help. It was much appreciated. Ron Brian Whitman wrote: When using PM I find that the easiest thing to do is right click on the table and select resize-move form list. Make the size partiton you want and then right click it again to create the type of partition you want fat32 or linux, linux-swap. You need to do this for each partition type. I used PM and had no problems with it. Install it into windows first then install linux into the created partition. Reboot into windows install bootmagic and everything should work fine. Hope this helps some. Brian -- Ron Marriage E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
You might want to try Partition Commander. I've used it on a 10 Gig hard drive and done almost everything to a partition you acn think of without losing data. Sam Walker Ron Marriage wrote: That's not what I want to do. I already have linux and windows partitions with running OSes in each. I need to resize them, make windows much smaller, linux much bigger. Partition Magic gives a check failed message and right clicks or menu options don't work. Tech support said partition first extended beyond end of HD. Changed this but then even partition magic wouldn't start. We reset back to original, Changed them again to eliminate free space at end of HD. PM still gave a check failed error but but now said partitions overlapped and check still failed. After contacting Powerquest tech support by phone and email, they had me run several copies of info program and send the report to them. After several weeks, I've stopped hearing from them and they no longer respond to email. The last email I got was 10 days ago, saying they got the report and would look at it and respond the next day. It's OK, I was told fips does a non-destructive resize and I'll use it. PM will be just another windows program I can delete, grin Thanks for all the help. It was much appreciated. Ron Brian Whitman wrote: When using PM I find that the easiest thing to do is right click on the table and select resize-move form list. Make the size partiton you want and then right click it again to create the type of partition you want fat32 or linux, linux-swap. You need to do this for each partition type. I used PM and had no problems with it. Install it into windows first then install linux into the created partition. Reboot into windows install bootmagic and everything should work fine. Hope this helps some. Brian -- Ron Marriage E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
[newbie] Repartitioning utility
For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive. There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning progrm called fips. It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If not you can get it at the Mandrake ftp site or ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils If that won't work, I downloaded all the files and directories associated with fips and I can send you a zip file. Just e-mail me. I haven't used fips because I have Partition Commander, but I thought I'd let you know it's available. Sam Walker
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
--- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive. There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning progrm called fips. It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If not you can get it at the Mandrake ftp site or ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils If that won't work, I downloaded all the files and directories associated with fips and I can send you a zip file. Just e-mail me. I haven't used fips because I have Partition Commander, but I thought I'd let you know it's available. Sam Walker Partition Magic is a easy and safe way to partition your drives. This is what I used and it was no trouble at all. The program only cost around $20 bucks and is well worth it! Brian = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65. I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions. It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed with fips during original mandrake install in version 5.3. I currently run 6.0 Powerquest tech support has been less than helpful. I get put on hold for 45 to 60 minutes when I call, and after several calls and multiple emails over almost 4 weeks, I'm still no closer to getting partition magic to read the table. tech support now no longer responds to emails. Ron Brian Whitman wrote: --- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive. There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning progrm called fips. It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If not you can get it at the Mandrake ftp site or ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils If that won't work, I downloaded all the files and directories associated with fips and I can send you a zip file. Just e-mail me. I haven't used fips because I have Partition Commander, but I thought I'd let you know it's available. Sam Walker Partition Magic is a easy and safe way to partition your drives. This is what I used and it was no trouble at all. The program only cost around $20 bucks and is well worth it! Brian = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Ron Marriage E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Ron Marriage wrote: I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65. I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions. It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed with fips during original mandrake install in version 5.3. I currently run 6.0 The version of Partition Magic that I have (3.0) will not repartition my linux partition. It did not see my window partition until I resized the partition a little using fips. Then it started working. You might also check out diskdrake from the coker menu at mandrake. I downloaded it tonight and it installed right up as an rpm. It is also a partition resizing program. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
I am using Partition Magic 4.0 My HD is only a 4 gig and I had it divided evenly between Win95 and Linux. My Linux partitions are a large / and 127 meg swap. hda1 windows had2 is divided into hda5 linux ext2 and hda6 linux swap. At first Patition magic gave a check failed message because partions extended beyond the HD limit. Fixed this, now it still fails check because of overlapped partitions. Linux partitions show up fine, its the windows that fails causing the entire thing to fail its check. I want to either reduce windows to about 400 meg or replace it entirely with DOS, then expand the remainder to linux. Windows and Linux both boot, but I don't use Windows anymore and want to give the space to linux. So far callin and email tech support have asked for info files several times, but supplied no answers. Thanks Ron "Lawrence G." wrote: when you run partition magic you need to have partition magic 4.0. It can recongnize disk drives 8.4 gb up it works better than previous versions of partition magic. When you run partition magic and you want to create a new partition for linux you need to make sure you specify ext2(linux only) for the partition linux swap for the swap file that needs to be created. This is for partition magic 4.0 by the way. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Marriage Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65. I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions. It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed with fips during original mandrake install in version 5.3. I currently run 6.0 Powerquest tech support has been less than helpful. I get put on hold for 45 to 60 minutes when I call, and after several calls and multiple emails over almost 4 weeks, I'm still no closer to getting partition magic to read the table. tech support now no longer responds to emails. Ron Brian Whitman wrote: --- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive. There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning progrm called fips. It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If not you can get it at the Mandrake ftp site or ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils If that won't work, I downloaded all the files and directories associated with fips and I can send you a zip file. Just e-mail me. I haven't used fips because I have Partition Commander, but I thought I'd let you know it's available. Sam Walker Partition Magic is a easy and safe way to partition your drives. This is what I used and it was no trouble at all. The program only cost around $20 bucks and is well worth it! Brian -- Ron Marriage E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility
I am using Version 4 and it is supposed to do a non-destructive partition changes in windows and linux. DiskDrake looks nice but does a destructive resize and I have my linux tweeked and tuned the way I want it. While I could reinstall, I wanted to avoid that, thus the purchase of Partition Magic. Sounds like you had the same problem, it doesn't see my window partition correctly either. What did you do with fips to make it see it. Does fips do a non-destructive resize on windows and linux partitions? Ron Rick Murphy wrote: The version of Partition Magic that I have (3.0) will not repartition my linux partition. It did not see my window partition until I resized the partition a little using fips. Then it started working. You might also check out diskdrake from the coker menu at mandrake. I downloaded it tonight and it installed right up as an rpm. It is also a partition resizing program. Rick -- Ron Marriage E-Mailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
