hi there
i always wanted to prevent this, but now that there are so many new games outta there,
i want to have a gaming os back on my hd... so i decided to install winxp additionally
in a small partition on my first hard drive.
but now, as you can imagine, there are _several_ problems.
i got the mentioned hard drive partitioned to have root almost all of it space. so its
a 40gigs hd with 39 gigs root (/) and bit for swap and /boot.
but now i have to shrink the bigger partition to get one additionally for ntfs. now
here's my first problem:
how should i do this?
i heard that resizefs isnt that good, because of possible data loss and so on. so if i
cant resize the partition, i have to rearrange it totally. that means: backing up all
my gentoo (well, all but /home, thats on another hard drive). but how can i _easily_
back up the root filesystem? dd wont work i think, since the size of the partition
will be different after rearranging, right? so maybe tar all the content... but whichs
the "cleanest" way to do that? especially since i have to put it back by using knoppix
or something like that...
would be nice if someone could help me (quickly... *smile*) with this...
ah, another thing related to this: if i installed windows, grub is killed from mbr i
think. well, i know, i could just reinstall grub into my mbr by running it and so on
(like in install manual), but is windows still executable then?
uhm... well, thats it for now. if there's something you got to know just ask me. :-)
btw: my partitions are reiserfs (all but /boot, this is ext2 for compatibility issues).
arne
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