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stingray72
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 Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:01 pm Post subject: Already partitioned and installed, can I change it? |
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Just like the title says... I've already partitioned and install Gentoo on /dev/hdd. The machine is a dual boot with Redhat on /dev/hda (not for long).
This is what my partitions (or lack there of) look like
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> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdd2 37G 5.7G 29G 17% /
tmpfs 1.0M 252K 772K 25% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/hda2 55G 6.9G 45G 14% /mnt/redhat
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What I'd like to do is either
A. reformat /dev/hda and create the paritition tables that I like and move my Gentoo install there (really don't want to reinstall)
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B. somehow resize the / parition on /dev/hdd and create a /home and others and just keep Gentoo on /dev/hdd.
If it's any help, right now I have lilo on /mbr of /dev/hda.
Do I have options here guys? What would you do?
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fava
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| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Try parted, it will allow you to resize your partitions for some file systems with some limitations. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ contains a list.
A package is available so you can just "emerge sys-apps/parted".
PartitionMagic is a commercial program that will resize partitions without some of the limitations of parted but it does have a few limits of its own. Its about $70
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stingray72
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I'm going to use parted and try and resize and create the new partitions. I'm also going to try and get the pc to boot off /dev/hdd since I really don't use Redhat (hda) any longer. I'll reformat that drive later since it's still a working OS.
since /dev/hdd3 is swap, I'll have to delete that and then resize my /dev/hdd2 partition (/) down to 6G to accomodate all the stuff I have on there. What I was thinking is something like this...
/dev/hdd1 /boot ~100M
/dev/hdd2 / ~6G
/dev/hdd3 /var ~1G
/dev/hdd4 /tmp ~1G
/dev/hdd5 /home ~30G (web server is in here)
/dev/hdd6 swap 250M (I've got 256M Ram)
Once I finish this and modify my /ets/fstab, will I have to copy all the info in /home, /tmp and /var (now on /) to the new partitions before I reboot the computer?
One last thing. Since the PC boots now from /dev/hda with LILO. When I decide not to dual boot it any longer, all I would have to do is uninstall LILO from /dev/hda, setup GRUB on /dev/hdd and then set the BIOS to boot from /dev/hdd correct?
Sorry, I just want to be completely ready for this before I get into it and royally screw up my Gentoo install
BTW, I have backed up my /home directory already  |
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