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El_Presidente_Pufferfish
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 Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 6:55 pm Post subject: Repartitioning my drive |
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Right now i have a 20gb hard drive split up as shown
| Code: | hda1 - WinXP
hda2 - /boot
hda3 - swap
hda4 - / |
I would like to cut hda4 down by about 5GB and make a new vfat partition to share between linux and XP. Is there a good/right way of doing this?
I was thinking of taking the journaling off of hda4(its ext3), then loading up partition magic to do the dirty work |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Repartitioning my drive |
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| El_Presidente_Pufferfish wrote: | Right now i have a 20gb hard drive split up as shown
| Code: | hda1 - WinXP
hda2 - /boot
hda3 - swap
hda4 - / |
I would like to cut hda4 down by about 5GB and make a new vfat partition to share between linux and XP. Is there a good/right way of doing this?
I was thinking of taking the journaling off of hda4(its ext3), then loading up partition magic to do the dirty work |
resize hda4 and then make a new ptable with cfdisk.
i dont know if its possible, you need to make hda4 first a logical then make the vfat part...
that can cause data coruption, i whould suggest taking a backup.
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keratos68
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antoe is almost there...can I just add a bit to his msg:
BACKUP FILES IN /dev/hda4 (/)
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1) Resize /dev/hda4 using something like the 'parted' utility. If you dont have it, use 'emerge parted'.
2) You have already reached the max partitions (max=4) so create and EXTENDED partition using cfdisk, then inside this create a new LOGICAL drive. Save and exit.
3) Reboot. /dev/hda5 should now be present.
4) Use 'mkfs.vfat /dev/hda5 ' to create (format) the drive. If you dont have mkfs.vfat, then 'emerge dosfstools'.
Done. |
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keratos68
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oh ... and ...
5) Create a mount point for your new drive, say "windows" using "mkdir /mnt/windows".
6) Issue the command 'id' and note down your user and group id numbers.
7) To mount at boot, add the following to your /etc/fstab
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/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows vfat uid=<<your user id>>,gid=<<your group id>>,umask=0700,rw 1 0 |
this will make linux assign you as the 'owner' of the partition and set the access modes accordingly. Also, the drive will be checked on each boot up.
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El_Presidente_Pufferfish
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| How do i do the parted and cfdisk stuff if i can't log in(because that would use the /, and i suppose i would want it unmounted to resize) |
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keratos68
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"El_Presidente_Pufferfish"...
How do i do the parted and cfdisk stuff if i can't log in(because that would use the /, and i suppose i would want it unmounted to resize)
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Is it necessary in the latest version of parted and cfdisk - must admit, didn't try it in mine, don't like doing that sort of thing unless I just have to 
Anyway, good idea and well spotted - the solution is to boot from CD or floppy, may I recommend "tomsrtbt" to our readers (also recommended by Linux Planet), visit http://www.toms.net/rb. Download the tomsrtbt-X.XX.XX.tar.gz file and invoke the "install.s" script with "./install.s" (of course!)
I find it a useful piece of kit  |
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keratos68
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"El_Presidente_Pufferfish"...
How do i do the parted and cfdisk stuff if i can't log in(because that would use the /, and i suppose i would want it unmounted to resize)
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Is it necessary in the latest version of parted and cfdisk - must admit, didn't try it in mine, don't like doing that sort of thing unless I just have to
Anyway, good idea and well spotted - the solution is to boot from CD or floppy, may I recommend "tomsrtbt" to our readers (also recommended by Linux Planet), visit http://www.toms.net/rb. Download the tomsrtbt-X.XX.XX.tar.gz file and invoke the "install.s" script with "./install.s" (of course!)
I find it a useful piece of kit |
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keratos68
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"El_Presidente_Pufferfish"...
How do i do the parted and cfdisk stuff if i can't log in(because that would use the /, and i suppose i would want it unmounted to resize)
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Is it necessary in the latest version of parted and cfdisk - must admit, didn't try it in mine, don't like doing that sort of thing unless I just have to
Anyway, good idea and well spotted - the solution is to boot from CD or floppy, may I recommend "tomsrtbt" to our readers (also recommended by Linux Planet), visit http://www.toms.net/rb. Download the tomsrtbt-X.XX.XX.tar.gz file and invoke the "install.s" script with "./install.s" (of course!)
I find it a useful piece of kit |
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keratos68
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Arggh - I didnt post THREE messages, whats going on, sorry - not my fault though.  |
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