[ltp] ibm recovery program with multiple partitions

[René Bastian]

Le Mercredi 11 Juin 2003 16:14, Rudy Gevaert a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:05:27AM +0200, René Bastian wrote:
> > Le Mercredi 11 Juin 2003 09:50, Thomas Marquart a écrit :
> > > > I am the owner of a R40, and currently I have two partitions on it:
> > > > 18Gig for Windows XP and 17Gig for GNU/Linux.
> >
> > and ~ 4 Gig for the recovery ?
>
> Yep
>
> > > > Will the recovery feature leave my other partitions alone and will it
> > > > install on the 3Gig partition?
> >
> > I tkink the partition for win-xp should be greater.
>
> Isn't 3Gig enough?  I do not know how much it needs.  I'm been running
> GNU/Linux alone for the last 3 years, and my only knowledge is
> Windows98.
>
> I'm leaving WindowsXP on it because I'll need it for some school work
> next year.
>
> > > I doubt this will work.
> > > the recovery feature works by having the recovery data hidden somewhere
> > > on the harddisk. You may already have overwritten parts of it. At least
> > > in my case I had to disable the recovery after resizeing to e able to
> > > boot. Even if recovery still works it will _wipe out_ everything and
> > > restore the _entire_ harddisk to its original state - your linux
> > > partitions would be gone, as far as I know.
>
> I still have the recovery partition and I have the recovery cd's.
>
> > in my case (R40) :
> > no, not the entire harddisk, but only the partition which contains
> > the mbr (/dev/hda1) - I reinstalled lilo after the win-xp "revolution"
>
> So my plan should work...?

Hm, it is possible that it will work, but  "no warranty" !

PS : I made a partition for my /home and and a partition for /texts

>
> Rudy

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René Bastian
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