Re: Can't believe install ate the whole thing
From: Seth (notavail_at_domain.net)
Date: 07/09/03
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:01:12 GMT
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:05:27 -0400, veritas wrote:
> So, I went for the fully automatic install. The good news is that that
> worked fine; I got RH9 up and running without a hitch. The bad news is
> that it helped itself to the whole doggone drive. This is a dual-boot
> box and I had other plans for a big chunk of space on the new H.D. As it
> is, I doubt my Redhat system will ever need all that space.
Instead of using the Auto install, reinstall and use disk druid (if RH 9
still has it that is) and then divide your disk into one partition for
Linux, and then one for fat32.Word of advice, install Windows FIRST so
that the linux boot loader you chose (LILO, Grub) will overwrite the MBR
correctly and allow for the dual boot when you install Linux, otherwise
the "other" OS will screw everything up.
> Question: Can I use Partition Commander to resize the Linux real estate
> down to, say, 20 Gb total, reclaiming the remainder for Fat32 and use
> with that other OS? Will this wreck the installation?
Not sure, never used it...sorry.
Partition Magic (think thats the name) is pretty good, but you have to
purchase it i believe.
> Also, the Partition Commander version I have (a couple of years old at
> least) does ext2, not ext3 and as far as I know it doesn't know about
> LVM.
You might be out of luck because i think RH9 is ext3
> Second question: Is there some way to get a report of disks/partitions
> in terms of gigabytes and megabytes, as opposed to start/end and blocks?
>
>
There has to be some kind of command out there somewhere, try google for
example.
HTH
Seth
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