[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 haveasked it in thefirst place and I am a big Linux loser. Thank you, Hershel 'Loser' Robinson[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hershel S Robinson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:40 PM Subject: Repartitioning Petition Hello Newbie Advisors. Here is my story: First I hadWindows NT on my C disk. Then I installedLinux onthatdisk, i.e. NT in the first partition, and then 3 for Linux. I now have gotten a D drive and have installedanother 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, Hershel Robinson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question
Partition magic is the best program to do what your trying to do. I don't know for sure about the one that came with linux. In order to get linux on D: not to mount the partitions on C:, you can run 'linuxconf : File systems : access local drives' and then get rid of the two partitions assumingly /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3. For lilo, yse, you can just edit your lilo.conf and then run lilo. Good luck - Original Message - From: Hershel S Robinson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 haveasked it in thefirst place and I am a big Linux loser. Thank you, Hershel 'Loser' Robinson[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hershel S Robinson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:40 PM Subject: Repartitioning Petition Hello Newbie Advisors. Here is my story: First I hadWindows NT on my C disk. Then I installedLinux onthatdisk, i.e. NT in the first partition, and then 3 for Linux. I now have gotten a D drive and have installedanother 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, Hershel Robinson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question
Hi Hershel , I am new to this site so I didn't see your previous mail. 1 Is this a reasonable plan? You plan sounds o.k. although I have never use fdisk. I use PartitionMagic from Windows which is safe. But I would advise you back up your data first. 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) unmount the drives from Linux or you may see some error messages when you next boot up (having removed the partitions). You do this from LinuxConf.attach local drives. You will get the list of mountable drives. Click on the ones you want and delete them. 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.Not too clued up on LILO, but that sounds o.k. Hope it helps, Michael When I initially installed Linux I just used the program that comes on the CD for partitioning P.S. Did you get a limited version of PartitionMagic with your CDs. If so, look at it.
Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Partition magic is the best program to do what your trying to do. I don't know for sure about the one that came with linux. In order to get linux on D: not to mount the partitions on C:, you can run 'linuxconf : File systems : access local drives' and then get rid of the two partitions assumingly /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3. For lilo, yse, you can just edit your lilo.conf and then run lilo. Good luck hi Brent, a friend of mine want to resize and move his linux partition with Partition Magic. the Q is, is that save? -- Rib A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth
Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question
Yes, it is very safe. - Original Message - From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Partition magic is the best program to do what your trying to do. I don't know for sure about the one that came with linux. In order to get linux on D: not to mount the partitions on C:, you can run 'linuxconf : File systems : access local drives' and then get rid of the two partitions assumingly /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3. For lilo, yse, you can just edit your lilo.conf and then run lilo. Good luck hi Brent, a friend of mine want to resize and move his linux partition with Partition Magic. the Q is, is that save? -- Rib A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth
