[ltp] Slackware on T42?

morpheus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:16:11 -0500


On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:19 -0600, Josh Battles wrote:
> Bob Alexander said:
> >
> > Josh,
> > if you check only a few days later I had to rebuild my T40 thinkpad
> > after PM had succesfully resized /var then /home then /tmp then /usr and
> > BOMBED on / !!!!!!!! Bastard :(
> 
> Ouch.  Just out of curiosity, what version are you using?  I've got PM 8,
> maybe this was corrected in the newer version?
> 

I wouldn't use PM to touch ext2/3 partitons...I just use it to delete
the IBM recovery partition and resize the NTFS...for the ext2/3 stuff
parted or fdisk are good...your linux installer will normally do this
for you, just leave empty space after NTFS on the disk.