Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
anyone have any advice on how to resize linux partitions? Well, partition magic might do it, but there are other free tools that probably support the Linux filesystems better. i.e., ext2resize (and physically ext2 is the same as ext3, minus the journal), so the trick would probably be to turn off the journal, run ext2resize, and then recreate the journals on the new resized partitions. parted might do it too. I haven't needed to do this yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing partitions
anyone have any advice on how to resize linux partitions? thinking about upgrading to partitionMagic8.0, which apparently has support for linux ext3 partitions... thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions mishap
On Monday 04 March 2002 13:44, you wrote: Jeff, when you set up the partition did you format it? there is a button on the gui to format. If you didn't it won't see the partition as usable. HTH Actually, I did think of that afterwards. So that would be the problem with the swap, maybe not the new partition though. I think I may have formated it. In either case is there anyway to jump in and stop Linux from mounting them so I can format them? Thanks Jeff Oh man, I have not figured that out, someone with more wizdom than I needs to jump in here. I think it starts with using the first CD and hitting F1 at the splash screen and getting into rescue mode but after that I'm not sure what to do. A little help here, please. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions mishap
sorry, jumping in late... can you boot from your mandrake CD, then update your system. that should allow you to repartition and reformat you partitions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions mishap On Monday 04 March 2002 13:44, you wrote: Jeff, when you set up the partition did you format it? there is a button on the gui to format. If you didn't it won't see the partition as usable. HTH Actually, I did think of that afterwards. So that would be the problem with the swap, maybe not the new partition though. I think I may have formated it. In either case is there anyway to jump in and stop Linux from mounting them so I can format them? Thanks Jeff Oh man, I have not figured that out, someone with more wizdom than I needs to jump in here. I think it starts with using the first CD and hitting F1 at the splash screen and getting into rescue mode but after that I'm not sure what to do. A little help here, please. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions mishap
thought I posted this to list... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions mishap Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:48:23 -0600 From: Jeff Quandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 04 March 2002 04:55 pm, you wrote: On Monday 04 March 2002 13:44, you wrote: Jeff, when you set up the partition did you format it? there is a button on the gui to format. If you didn't it won't see the partition as usable. HTH Actually, I did think of that afterwards. So that would be the problem with the swap, maybe not the new partition though. I think I may have formated it. In either case is there anyway to jump in and stop Linux from mounting them so I can format them? Thanks Jeff Oh man, I have not figured that out, someone with more wizdom than I needs to jump in here. I think it starts with using the first CD and hitting F1 at the splash screen and getting into rescue mode but after that I'm not sure what to do. A little help here, please. You are right. I found a good tutor file on Mnadrakeuser.org Here is the URL http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/index.html Have a look there for lots of cool stuff. I ended up booting from cd and getting everything fixed. Thanks all. Jeff --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing partitions mishap
Ok I used DiskDrake to resize my swap partition and created a new partition, /data,with the extra space. Now when I reboot I get an error and lockup. It says fsck: bad superbolck in /dev/hdb6 (the new partition) I get an option to correct the errors with yes/no selects, but it locks up here. I tried booting in failsafe and nonfb and noticed in the text boot up that when swapon /dev/hdb5 ( my swap partition) is run, it fails with an invalid arguement. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks, Jeff
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions mishap
On Sunday 03 March 2002 15:04, you wrote: Ok I used DiskDrake to resize my swap partition and created a new partition, /data, with the extra space. Now when I reboot I get an error and lockup. It says fsck: bad superbolck in /dev/hdb6 (the new partition) I get an option to correct the errors with yes/no selects, but it locks up here. I tried booting in failsafe and nonfb and noticed in the text boot up that when swapon /dev/hdb5 ( my swap partition) is run, it fails with an invalid arguement. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks, Jeff Jeff, when you set up the partition did you format it? there is a button on the gui to format. If you didn't it won't see the partition as usable. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] resizing partitions
How do I resize partitions on an existing install? I allocated way too much space for swap, and with 512MB Ram, I have yet to even touch the swap space So I want to reclaim some of that space Can I resize it without trashing everything? On a related note, if anyone knows of a good tutorial on Linux point, me to it I don't want to waste everyone's time on silly questions like this one, but I have not found the answers in the archives (When I search I seem to hit everything but the archives) To clarify, I don't mean an install tutorial, I handled that fine I mean something that helps with day to day operation and maintainence Thanks a lot Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
Also you can do a google search for linux help howto tutorial or whatever and it will come up with all kinds of stuff for you. On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:53:15 -0500 Jeff Quandt Jeff Quandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I resize partitions on an existing install? I allocated way too much space for swap, and with 512MB Ram, I have yet to even touch the swap space. So I want to reclaim some of that space. Can I resize it without trashing everything? On a related note, if anyone knows of a good tutorial on Linux point, me to it. I don't want to waste everyone's time on silly questions like this one, but I have not found the answers in the archives. (When I search I seem to hit everything but the archives...) To clarify, I don't mean an install tutorial, I handled that fine. I mean something that helps with day to day operation and maintainence. Thanks a lot. Jeff -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Evolution 1.0.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
Yes, you can resize the SWAP partition using DiskDrake, ofcourse you must be root to do that. Just load the DiskDrake, click on the (green) swap partition and then on the left-hand side of the DiskDrake the option 'resize' (or similar) will appear. click on it and it will give you a 'drag bar' (or you can enter the number) that will allow you to choose how much space you need to have allocated for your swap partition. It doesn't damage your system since you have plenty of RAM memory. I have reduced mine to 100mb swap (from 200) with 128 MB RAM. Works perfect. However, the free space will probably be left in between your new swap and your (i am assuming you have it setup like this) /home partition. You might wanna mount that free space in between to a new /directory. Hope that helps, Zlatko Savic --- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 March 2002 21:00, you wrote: On Friday 01 March 2002 01:53 pm, you wrote: How do I resize partitions on an existing install? I allocated way too much space for swap, and with 512MB Ram, I have yet to even touch the swap space. So I want to reclaim some of that space. Can I resize it without trashing everything? __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
On Friday 01 March 2002 12:53, Jeff Quandt wrote: How do I resize partitions on an existing install? I allocated way too much space for swap, and with 512MB Ram, I have yet to even touch the swap space So I want to reclaim some of that space Can I resize it without trashing everything? On a related note, if anyone knows of a good tutorial on Linux point, me to it I don't want to waste everyone's time on silly questions like this one, but I have not found the answers in the archives (When I search I seem to hit everything but the archives) To clarify, I don't mean an install tutorial, I handled that fine I mean something that helps with day to day operation and maintainence Thanks a lot Jeff file:///usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/userhtml/diskdrakehtml may answer your resizing question and file:///usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/indexhtml may answer some of your future questions My favourite recommendations are a) These 2 books by Mandrake which you have on your hard drive, accessible from file:///usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/indexhtml I even went so far as to download them in pdf format from the Mandrake website and print them our in a 4-in-1 format The troubleshooting section in the reference manual has come in very handy many times! I've apprecitated having that in a printed format :-) b) http://wwwmandrakeuserorg Good luck, Narfi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions
With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your lock-up's but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
After another crash last night I pulled out the third stick, so far so good, but I would like to do a mem test. One problem with this, I have NO windoze boxes, and have not for about 3 years now. can this be done with dd and if so what is the comand? TIA, John On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:27, you wrote: With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your lock-up's but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] resizing partitions Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions
Yep - you can use dd. Insert your Installation disk (I'm usign MDK 8.0 but it should be roughly the same). 'dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/memtest.bin of=/dev/fd0' That' will copy the memtest.bin image file onto you floppy disk. It'll overwrite anything on the disk so make sure there's nothing on there you want to keep. Boot with it in the floppy drive and you'll get a blue screen and it'll start performing the memtest automatically. Good Luck. -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions After another crash last night I pulled out the third stick, so far so good, but I would like to do a mem test. One problem with this, I have NO windoze boxes, and have not for about 3 years now. can this be done with dd and if so what is the comand? TIA, John On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:27, you wrote: With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your lock-up's but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer
[newbie] resizing partitions
Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions
I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: For newbie: Resizing partitions
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 05:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: For newbie: Resizing partitions Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:12:47 -0600 From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dennis: I'd appreciate if if you could forward this to the newbie list for me. Thanks! On one of my boxes I've run out of room on the / partition but have lots of room on the /home partition. Is there a way to resize my partitions so as to put that free space where I need it? I'm using ext2. Look here: http://linux.msede.com/ext2/ The ext2resize facility is now combined with ext2end which expands live filesystems. You need temporary storage so you can cafely copy away the one you will shrink (cause it may shrink from the wrong end) then you can use ext2end to expand / without dismounting (which you cannot do anyway unless you are booting off a rescue disk, which won't have the ext2 resize facility). Yes, folks, you really cannot umount / unless you use the chroot command in which case it is moot, since you cannot then access the original / any longer. ext2resize is on the 8.1 CDs though it is still a use at own risk category. Civileme TIA, Warren --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing partitions
Found the easiest and less hassle was to install on two HD's. One linux and one Windoze 98. With windoze already installed Mandrake installed first time. Make windows the master, the master boot record will be rewritten and your windows virus checker will spot this. Jeremy Davidson wrote: I've decided to give LM8.0 a try as a dual-boot system (previously I'd been swapping HDs to keep it separate from win). How much risk is involved in trying to resize my fat32 partition (using the LM8 install program)? I have an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive (IDE) on a T-bird system. I've backed up pretty much everything, but I'd still prefer not to lose anything if I can help it. If something does happen, I guess it's not a really big deal. I'm planning on reformatting and reinstalling win anyway -- 'just don't want to do it now. Thanks in advance for any advice. Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions
You may find it is eaiser to use 3rd party software such as partion magic to resize your drive. I have setup various dual boot systems several times with win 2k and win 98. I have found that partion magic is very simple and effective. I recommend letting LILO handle the booting as it is easy understand and configure. dAnimAL -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] resizing partitions Found the easiest and less hassle was to install on two HD's. One linux and one Windoze 98. With windoze already installed Mandrake installed first time. Make windows the master, the master boot record will be rewritten and your windows virus checker will spot this. Jeremy Davidson wrote: I've decided to give LM8.0 a try as a dual-boot system (previously I'd been swapping HDs to keep it separate from win). How much risk is involved in trying to resize my fat32 partition (using the LM8 install program)? I have an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive (IDE) on a T-bird system. I've backed up pretty much everything, but I'd still prefer not to lose anything if I can help it. If something does happen, I guess it's not a really big deal. I'm planning on reformatting and reinstalling win anyway -- 'just don't want to do it now. Thanks in advance for any advice. Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing partitions
I've decided to give LM8.0 a try as a dual-boot system (previously I'd been swapping HDs to keep it separate from win). How much risk is involved in trying to resize my fat32 partition (using the LM8 install program)? I have an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive (IDE) on a T-bird system. I've backed up pretty much everything, but I'd still prefer not to lose anything if I can help it. If something does happen, I guess it's not a really big deal. I'm planning on reformatting and reinstalling win anyway -- 'just don't want to do it now. Thanks in advance for any advice. Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resizing Partitions
Hi, I'm a very newbie Linux-Mandrake user who wants to know what is the best way to increase the size of my Windows Partition (I played around with RedHat a while ago, and set up a 7 GB Windows and a 13 GB RH partition - but most of my memory intensive applications are in Windows). Is it possible to use Diskdrake to remove the Linux partitions, then increase the size of my Windows partition, and then put the Linux ones back on? Or is there a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance, Clem
Re: [newbie] Resizing Partitions
Clem; I'm only a few days old into Linux, too.. so am not taking expert status here but your situation is not unlike mine. I can't say that this is the right way, the best way or even the safest way but here's how I did it. I used a 1986 copy of Partition Magic (v. 3.0; it's what I had and the new version is $65 or better) to reduce the size of my existing partitions. This put free space in essentially unusable areas of the HD. Then, I moved what remained of the drives (you can't move the free space, at least in the version I used) to consolidate the free space and closed PM. When I rebooted Windows, it saw the resized drives but the "lost" free space was unaccounted for anywhere. My 8.1 GB drive is now just under 6 GB to Windows. When I got to the point of the Linux install, I used the expert mode (in other installations, I read that option is called DiskDrake) and began by making a 128 MB swap drive. I also made 2 others with the bulk of the 2 GB I still had free. Out of curiosity, I looked at what I'd done later in PM again. It saw the 3 new little drives and noted them as "other" in the legend. A newer version of PM might know what to call them. Windows saw nothing of the space or of the drives that Linux made. To my way of thinking, this put the data I had in the least jeopardy (aside from the risk of having used software to partition that was designed for Win95) and it was in a way that made sense to me. Partly because I didn't understand fully what Linux needed, I didn't like the idea of Windows and Linux being on the same virtual drive even if a new partition was installed. I don't care to have my peas and mashed potatoes commingling on the same plate with gravy or something slathered over all, either. ;) In retrospect, I'm glad I did it the way I did it but at the same time, if it made better sense to increase my Windows drive than to create the space elsewhere, I wouldn't be as afraid to do it. I hope there is something you can use here. Dave Clem wrote: Hi, I'm a very newbie Linux-Mandrake user who wants to know what is the best way to increase the size of my Windows Partition (I played around with RedHat a while ago, and set up a 7 GB Windows and a 13 GB RH partition - but most of my memory intensive applications are in Windows). Is it possible to use Diskdrake to remove the Linux partitions, then increase the size of my Windows partition, and then put the Linux ones back on? Or is there a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance, Clem -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
[newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a Linux partition *without losing any data from either C: or D:*? Thanks, -- Koly
Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
Nickolay Belostotsky£¬ÄúºÃ£¡, do it, u can get it! ÔÚ 00-5-15 10:40:00 ÄúдµÀ£º Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a if all the dada in ur D: driver are less than 2G, u can get it! if not, you can get a new driver which size is the same as the free space of driver D: if u think it's 2 small, u can resize driver C: , and move driver D:, to get a larger driver. in fact u can almost do everything use PQMagic. Linux partition *without losing any data from either C: or D:*? Thanks, -- Koly Ö Àñ£¡ Cyber Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
Hi Nickolay, I found out what the reason was for my non-graphical install problems. The computer that I was practicing on was PII 200 MHz and the drives were from around 1996-7. I had the install for i586s. As Allen mentioned, for older machines use the i486 install CD. I inserted the install CD and DrakeX popped up right away. Hooray!! This is the best news I've encountered over the last 4 days! Now, before I run the Linux partitioning, I must read over the install guide again. Thanks for the feedback. Roman (Indeed the penguins are almost here) Cyber Eagle wrote: Nickolay Belostotsky£¬ÄúºÃ£¡, do it, u can get it! ÔÚ 00-5-15 10:40:00 ÄúдµÀ£º Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a if all the dada in ur D: driver are less than 2G, u can get it! if not, you can get a new driver which size is the same as the free space of driver D: if u think it's 2 small, u can resize driver C: , and move driver D:, to get a larger driver. in fact u can almost do everything use PQMagic. Linux partition *without losing any data from either C: or D:*? Thanks, -- Koly Ö Àñ£¡ Cyber Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
-Original Message- Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a Linux partition *without losing any data from either C: or D:*? Thanks, -- Koly yes, select the partition and use "resize" __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
Koly As long as you have less than 2Gb of data on D the answer is Yes. Charles - Original Message - From: "Nickolay Belostotsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 2:40 AM Subject: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a Linux partition *without losing any data from either C: or D:*? Thanks, -- Koly
