partitioning

Jayson Smith ratguy at bellsouth.net
Sun May 23 19:44:05 EDT 2004


Well, if you use Fdisk to repartition and you have to get rid of your Win32
partition, that will cause you to lose data on your Win32 partition.  I
personally use Partition Magic.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: partitioning


> I suppose that if I cannot do it in Linux, I could use the DOS utility
> fDisk, and re-partition it, and then set the larger partition to the boot
> partition, and Install Linux there, allowing it to re-format it.
> Glenn
>
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> Subject: Re: partitioning
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> Hi Glenn.  I believe to get this done you need to resize the partitions.
> I'm not sure if fedora comes with this utility as
> part of it's install.  I was looking for one to repartition my ntfs
> partition but it seems you can only do this from a
> working installed Linux system.  And since I need to partition in order to
> get a working Linux system I'm in a catch-22 of
> sorts here.  I think though that repartitioning a fat32 partition is
easier
> to get done from Linux than an ntfs one.
>
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