Re: Running out of dual boot room

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:37:09 +0000, Bruce Barbour wrote this:

noi wrote:
On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:01:06 +0000, Bruce Barbour wrote this:

Jan Sevelsted wrote:
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:03:30 +0000, Bruce Barbour had the audacity to
write:

One drive divided WindowsXP 30 megs and bal of 90 megs for Fedora 5.
This was a bad move as I am running out of space for XP. I'd like to
install another drive and move Fedora to it and leave Windows on the
first drive alone. Suggestions? Should I install Fedora on the 2nd
drive and copy stuff from the dual boot Fedora, or should I back
Fedora up to the new drive after partitioning? Since Fedora has lots
of room on the lst drive, can I re-partition it smaller? Bit of a
quandary as to how to proceed here, thanks for any input.
Hmmm... 120 megabyte isn't floating many boats these days. Are you
sure it's not gigabytes instead?
My son's machine (250G) is partitioned 10G for the WinXP C-drive, 200G
(FAT - access from both OS's) for data and other stuff and the rest is
set up for Linux. I suggest you buy an extra drive as per your own
suggestion, split drive 1 like you have it now, keep the extra
WinXP-stuff out of the C-drive (makes it easier to retrieve your data
when (not _if_) your Win-install goes south (my son got his machine in
May and is already good at re-installing :-) ) and set drive 2 (which
most likely will be around 250G with the prices we have these days) up
for whatever distro you fancy. Tell the boot-manager which OS you
prefer to boot and voila! off you go.

Good luck

Tnx, megs?? Asleep at the switch!!

You can download Gparted LiveCD.

With it's gui interface you can shrink the FC5 partition to 30Gb and
increase the XP by 60GB (or 59Gb etc.) without destroying the data on
either OS.

Back up your critical data just in case but I've done that 3x already
and it works very well.

FC5 as an OS doesn't need much space unless you're running servers, or
as media storage. 20Gb should still be enough for FC5.

When your son installed FC5 he/you should have installed it without LVM
(logical volume mounts) then you could install Explorefs on XP to read
FC5 files and NTFS on FC5 to read XP files. And you wouldn't need
FAT32.

FAT32 works but isn't as efficient as NTFS on partitions over 32G.
FAT32 also limits your file sizes to 2Gb. So if you're trying to
download file or DVD iso larger than 2Gb you have to do it on FC5.


Hi, thanks for the tip. I downloaded and burned to a cd. But I can't
seem to run it, it keeps loading Xine and failing. Like to get the gui
up but maybe you can advise me how? Tnx



Really?? I checked my Gparted LiveCD and no xine libraries or programs
are on the CD. Only Gparted, xterm and Leafnode.

Are you sure you downloaded and burned the right stuff??

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
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