[ltp] Resizing partitions ...

[Leander Gillard]

I use Partition Magic 5, it works great.



Leander Gillard



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Janmaat" <janmaatj@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Resizing partitions ...


> Fernando Fuganti wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Janmaat wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > hi !
> >
> > > My employer provided me with a Thinkpad A20m, with Win98 installed.  I
> > > convinced them to put Linux on it as well (Slackware), but am now
trying
> > > to figure out how to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition to get
more
> > > room for Linux stuff (/usr, /home).  I have tried FIPS and fsresize,
> > > both of which exit with some message about problems in some upper
> > > sector/cluster.  Scandisk and dosfschk indicate everything is fine.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > yes, try using GNU parted, it's a replacement for FIPS and Partition
> > Magic, and more, is under GPL !
> >
> > with it you can do a lot of operations on your partitions safely
> >
> > try http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
> >
> > parted only runs on Linux, but a boot disk is available on bootdisk
> > directory on ftp (see Downloading section on web page)
>
> Works great, thank-you.
>
> As to why do I want to do this?
>
> 1) The linux install was too small to include the software I wanted, so
> I needed more space.
>
> 2) I may want to update the linux version at some point, and want my
> /home directory to be O.K., even if I mess up the install.
>
> 3) I do some development, and want to reduce the risk of messing up the
> root directory if something I run goes crazy.  Some of my develoment
> includes CGI scripts that write files.  Therefore, keeping /var in a
> separate partition might be a way of ensuring that a runaway script does
> not choke up the root directory.
>
> 4) I cannot get rid of Windows, as my students use it (my employer is a
> university).  However, I don't think that it needs 3/4 of my HD when it
> receives less than 1/5 of the use.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> John.
>
>
> >
> > Fernando Fuganti
> >
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