Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread David B. Carter
Charlie said: On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:35 am, many eyes viewed David B. Carter's words:- I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread David B. Carter
Alaa The Great said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:14 -0500 (EST) David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:35 pm, David B. Carter wrote: I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single FAT32 partition that could

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread David B. Carter
Bryan Phinney said: David, the act of creating a mount point and mounting a partition involves two separate things. First, you create an actual mount point directory off of root. That directory is there regardless of whether the partition is mounted or not. Second, you create an fstab

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:30 am, many eyes viewed David B. Carter's words:- Now, I'm playing again. I opened DiskDrake, and (I thought) deleted the /winshare partition, reformatted using ext3 and mounted it as /var/servers for putting my FTP and WWW stuff. Now, when I restart, I have a

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-17 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:32:06 -0500 (EST) David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its normal for the directory to remain even after you remove the partition, the directory where you mount partitions is stored at the parent partition (on the

[newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-16 Thread David B. Carter
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single FAT32 partition that could be read/written by both OS's. It worked! In MDK 9.2, it is

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?

2004-03-16 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:14 -0500 (EST) David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that I wanted to see