On Friday 03 May 2013 12:41:02 Steven Wend wrote: > yes good idea. So I tried this configuration: > ------------ > disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,3 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid > > primary - 0 - - > primary / 16000 ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro > primary - 0 - - > logical swap 4000 swap rw > logical /home 1000 ext3 rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L home -m > 1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0" > ------------ > > The error I started with is gone but now it is said that there is not > enough space to create the logical volumes.
Uhm. Yeah. If I'm not totally mistaken then you are using up all non-preserved disk space on /sda2 and there's not much room after the second windows partition. Btw. you may or may not be interested in LVM. Configure sda2 as a PV and provide /, swap and /home as logical volumes? e.g.: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,3 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid primary - 0 - - primary - 16000 - - primary - 0 - - disk_config lvm vg vg_system disk1.1 vg_system-root / 500M-8G ext3 errors=remount-ro vg_system-swap swap 2G swap defaults vg_system-home /home 1G-70% ext3 rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L home -m 1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Something like this? Needs some finetuning with the boot loader. I would advise to install GRUB2 into /dev/sda2, dd the relevant blocks to the windows boot partition and configure windows to chainload grub2 (or the linux kernel). There's also the possibility to let GRUB2 do all the boot handling, but at least Windows 7 is really bitchy and will refuse to create 'Volume Shadow Copies' (e.g. the windows built in backup utility will fail with a very non-descriptive error message.) bye thomas
