On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 02:50, Collins Richey wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:33:16 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a test with resize
of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it though, (i didnt
loose my own data, i had
I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks
like it should work with FAT32.
As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you
can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available.
On 2003-12-01, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
[...]
Haha
I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows
at all, and dual boot for the sake of windows is something rare among
this freedom loving crowd.
I must say that I have never seen as many Outlook/Outlook Express users
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:43:35 +0100 Matthieu Amiguet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks
like it should work with FAT32.
As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started
Mark Knecht wrote:
but I got some really ugly messages in
the xterm I started to run it, so I wasn't sure if I should go any
further just yet.
Yep. You can. I've resized many FAT{,32} partitions from my customers and
friends. I can't remember for sure, but I think I did a NTFS resize too.
daniel wrote:
i think what you're looking for is gnu parted
# emerge --search parted
should get you what you need
Hmm.
That's when the system runs ..
How are things now again... *thinking* *trying to remember*
Is there a ram disk I can install it to during gentoo install before
fdisk and
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a test with resize
of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it though, (i didnt
loose my own data, i had test partitions)
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:28, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
daniel wrote:
i think what you're looking for is gnu
If partd is on the gentoo LiveCD (and I'm too lazy to check, but I think
it is) then simply boot form the LiveCD and run it. I do believe that's
how I made room to dual-boot my laptop.
Let me know how I may be of service,
=C=
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just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a test with resize
of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it
though, (i didnt
loose my own data, i had test partitions)
QTparted and parted are not the same.. Parted does much more that qtparted does... You
have to watch
isnt qtparted just a frontend?
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:37, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a test with resize
of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it
though, (i didnt
loose my own data, i had test partitions)
QTparted and
isnt qtparted just a frontend?
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:37, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a
test with resize
of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it
though, (i didnt
loose my own data, i had test partitions)
then i guess qtparted and parted does the same
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:44, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
isnt qtparted just a frontend?
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:37, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a
test with resize
of fat32, and it failed,
HMm, re-reading it doesn't really make sense.. I have used parted on fat32 just fine.
I know it works.. If your not getting it to work, maybe it something local.
Nope..
Q: What is QTParted ?
A: QTParted is an attempt to create a linux-based clone of
Partition Magic. Actually, a clone
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:33:16 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just to warn you, i just emerged qt parted and made a test with resize
of fat32, and it failed, but recover tools could fix it though, (i didnt
loose my own data, i had test partitions)
What were the error messages?
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I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary
fat23 partition (the only partition there is)
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary
fat23 partition (the
On December 1, 2003 03:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent
an application for windows called partition magic can do it, but it isnt
free, i dont know if an evaluation version exists, else cd 1 of mandrake
linux is REALLY good for partitioning
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm
wondering whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80
GB primary
Redeeman wrote:
an application for windows called partition magic can do it, but it isnt
free, i dont know if an evaluation version exists, else cd 1 of mandrake
linux is REALLY good for partitioning
Ok, I'll investigate that, since I have some old mandrake CDs at hand.
Or at work actually ;)
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB
What does it matter? Fat16/32 is the same no matter how big it is..
Its all crap.. :)
Should work just fine as long as the program doesn't limit itself.
However, I wonder if that software is up to date. They are talking
windows 95 and stuff on that homepage. Does it work even though my
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:00, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
What does it matter? Fat16/32 is the same no matter how big it is..
Its all crap.. :)
fat32 is not crap, i still use it for all my files, ext2/3 and reiserfs
is so insecure if you experience power failures, fat32 you never loose
your
Tom Wesley wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent experience in
Your using fat32 with linux??
I don't know what your doing over there, but your scaring me just listening to this..
If you think fat32 is better, so be it, but I have no idea how your getting by with
fat32 on a linux system..
Never loose files?? hmm...
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:00, Jeffrey
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
Redeeman wrote:
an application for windows called partition magic can do it, but it isnt
free, i dont know if an evaluation version exists, else cd 1 of mandrake
linux is REALLY good for partitioning
Ok, I'll investigate that, since I have some old mandrake CDs at hand.
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:17, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
Tom Wesley wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave,
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
... and I'll try fips from my mandrake CD tomorrow or later this week.
...or whatever suitable utility that is suggested by mandrake install...
Jonas
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Tom Wesley wrote:
(Anyone jealous?)
Haha
I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows
at all, and dual boot for the sake of windows is something rare among
this freedom loving crowd.
I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if
it wasn't for
well my system is installed on ext3, but all my stuff is on fat32!
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:20, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
Your using fat32 with linux??
I don't know what your doing over there, but your scaring me just listening to this..
If you think fat32 is better, so be it, but I have no
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a
couple of times with NTFS.
On December 1, 2003 04:37 pm, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if
it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my
internet bank system doesn't support mozilla.
you'd be surprised at what mozilla would support.
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
Actually, I don't find it believable at all
daniel wrote:
On December 1, 2003 04:37 pm, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if
it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my
internet bank system doesn't support mozilla.
you'd be surprised at what mozilla
Ric Messier wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, daniel wrote:
you'd be surprised at what mozilla would support. you just have to get
mozilla to tell the site it's talking to that it's actually inernet exploder
running on windows xp ;-) i use this trick to do much of my online banking
'cause i know damn well that
daniel wrote:
Well...
My bank uses a security plugin that only supports IE or
Netscape 4 on
mac or windows.
*ugly words*...
Are you sure? Mozilla supports netscape plugins... As well as Konquorer
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Tom Wesley wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
Actually, I don't find
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
What?
I'm pretty sure I was never given that option!
Would have been during the install.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/newinstallation.asp
My XP is swedish, but it can't be about that, can it?
I
oppps, daniel did not write this, Jonas did.. Sorry daniel..
daniel wrote:
Well...
My bank uses a security plugin that only supports IE or
Netscape 4 on
mac or windows.
*ugly words*...
Are you sure? Mozilla supports netscape plugins... As well as
Konquorer
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
OH SHT!
I didn't know of that!
convert works well. been a while since i've used it. requires a reboot
since it won't convert a live filesystem (needs to mount it read only to
convert, iirc).
Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and
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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.
Tom Wesley wrote:
(Anyone jealous?)
Haha
I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows
at all, and dual boot
daniel wrote:
On December 1, 2003 03:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent
Jonas Widarsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
Not true.
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I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks
like it should work with FAT32.
As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you
can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available.
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
Well...
My bank uses a security plugin that only supports IE or Netscape 4
on mac or windows.
*ugly words*...
Which one is it ? I guess 1-st Albanian ...
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ntfs READ is rock solid in linux, never tried to write, but in the new
2.6 partly stabile write support is
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:11, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
Tom Wesley wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
Well... XP
Mark Knecht wrote:
I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks
like it should work with FAT32.
As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you
can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:46, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
It looks quite nice, but the features page doesn't list FAT as a supported
file system type...
- Mark
It is really strange that that qtparted web page deosn't list FAT32
support. I am very sure it is
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