Parted Not Found

[JP Jamous]

I can afford losing the partition. I have an image of it. Plus this computer
has no screen nor keyboard. It is my testing machine.

It looks like one of those muscle cars without a hood and fenders. As long
as it runs, that's all I care about and she does a pretty good job.

What I found interesting is that you told me to leave the rest
unpartitioned. Does that mean ArchLinux would create a primary partition
upon installation?

Secondly, since it is a pain to take the hard drive out and hook it
externally to my other machine, is it possible to wipe the hard drive using
parted? I can then create a blank partition and throw the Windows image on
it. I assume RM 2 would delete it.

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:49 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Parted Not Found

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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:32:41AM -0400, trev.saunders at gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, I take it you didn't use the windows installer to set up partitions
with a spare partition for linux?  Unfortunitely, that would have been
slightly simpler, because ntfs support in linux isn't the simplest thing.
> 
> What I believe you'll have to do is use ntfsresize to resize the ntfs
filesystem that windows uses, then use parted to shrink the partition that
the ntfs filesystem was on, and make file system's on the new partitions for
linux.
> 
> This will look something like the following:
> 1. #ntfsresize --size <new size>G /dev/sda1 # note that <new size>G is 
> the number of gigabytes you want the file system to be, where a gigabyte
is 10^9, not 2^30 I would probably use about 40G for windows, maby 50 or 60
depending on my exact needs, in that case you would do ntfsresize --size 40G
/dev/sda1 if windows is on the first partition of the first harddrive.
> then use parted to resize that partition to 40G, and create new partitions
for linux.

Yeah, it probably would have been a better idea to partition the disk when
installing windows in such a way, so that windows doesn't take the whole
drive. It's also worth mentioning that if you're going to attempt what
Trevor described above, you want to take a backup of the drive, unless you
don't mind the possibility of losing everything on it, and starting
everything, including windows from scratch. Come to think of it, if starting
from scratch is an option, I'd say you're probably better off wiping the
drive, and starting from scratch by installing windows to a smaller
partition that doesn't take the whole disk. You don't need to create
partitions on the rest of the disk, leaving the part unused by windows
unpartitioned is just fine, and I'd say the best choice.

Greg


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