On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, that would be the best I could do. But, assuming that I can't remove entirely windows from my laptop, what about reduce it to it's minimum (windows + apps that I really need) and run it by VMware, always under Gentoo? The spare space from unused apps would merge it with gentoo's partition.. I estimate it of about 4Gb. What do you say about this?
My /boot is inside gentoo's partition. I understand the point of having it outside.. I should think of changing it!! Good point!
The reason it is FAT32 is to windows be able to access it. With windows away, I could do that.
>From this partition (hda5) I may be able to free some space and "move" it to gentoo's partition.
I have. 512mb swap. df shows it slitted into 2 other: udev and none....
Yes, of course!
Thanks for suggestions.
Fernando.
Fernando Meira wrote:
> I have:
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% /
> udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev
> /dev/hda5 23G 20G 3.3G 86% /mnt/share
> /dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.8G 82% /mnt/windows
> none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
>
> Options:
> - erase hda1 (win$) and merge with with hda4.
> - somehow rearrange hda5 (which is FAT) and split it 2, and merge a
> part to hda4.
The question is...can you live without the windows partition?
Well,
maybe. The problem is that sometimes I need to use something that works
only under windows (or better under windows). Besides that I only use
windows for video-conference (I haven't found the time to look for a
linux replacement, assuming that my webcam works under linux).
if you don't need it I would look at this:
1) Merge hda1 and hda4. Assuming this is desktop box that should be
plenty of space for the system and applications
Yes, that would be the best I could do. But, assuming that I can't remove entirely windows from my laptop, what about reduce it to it's minimum (windows + apps that I really need) and run it by VMware, always under Gentoo? The spare space from unused apps would merge it with gentoo's partition.. I estimate it of about 4Gb. What do you say about this?
2) Create a /boot partition (assuming you don't currently have one on
your box that wasn't mounted when you did the df). This way if your
system crashes at least /boot will not be corrupted.
My /boot is inside gentoo's partition. I understand the point of having it outside.. I should think of changing it!! Good point!
3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of choice. Mount
it as /home.
The reason it is FAT32 is to windows be able to access it. With windows away, I could do that.
>From this partition (hda5) I may be able to free some space and "move" it to gentoo's partition.
4) Consider creating a swap partition. Even if you have plenty of RAM,
in my experience Linux just runs better with a swap partition mounted.
I have. 512mb swap. df shows it slitted into 2 other: udev and none....
I would strongly suggest that you do a full backup before doing any of
this. I know there are partition resizing and reformatting utilities
but they I wouldn't trust them without a backup.
Yes, of course!
Thanks for suggestions.
Fernando.
