Fernando Meira wrote:
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).
mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have
much expirience with either, sorry to say. As far as the other software
is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of wine (assuming
that wine itself won't run it) or maybe some virtualization software
such as vmare.
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?
With VMWare you create a virtual disk, which can be expanded as needed.
This is one way to go. As mentioned Wine is the other.
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.
Right. Keep in mind that with VMWare you can mount your linux home
directory as a SMB share.
Another advantage of a seperate /home is that you can reinstall the OS
without effecting your important personal data and settings. I realize
on your current system /mnt/share really handled some of that but
thought I'd mention it as well.
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....
OK... blury vision... that email was part of an allnighter.
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