Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 schrieb Antony Stace:
> Hi Folks
>
> I have a linux machine which has one partition on it. There is a lot of
> software on it. What I want to do is repartition the hardrive into a
> couple of partitions(I want advice as to how many)
Hello Antony!
For information on a possible partition scheme i include the output of "df" for
my computer (couldn't be bothered to umount partitions for a "fdisk"):
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 1536940 1352580 184360 88% /
/dev/sda6 3584876 2770380 814496 77% /usr
/dev/sda2 2048956 122080 1926876 6% /var
/dev/sda7 1633192 647524 985668 40% /home
/dev/sda1 20803 2665 17064 14% /boot
Then there's /dev/sda3, that's swap (double the RAM) and /dev/sda4, that's a
DOS extended partition containing sda 5 through 7. BTW, those and /var are
formatted reiserfs, and I really like this! I'm just sorry /boot had to remain
on ext2 for lilo to be able to boot it.
As you can see, sda5 is a bit too small (or I'll have to clean out core files
soon...) and sda2 seems much too big, but it isn't because there's a growing
MySQL database on it.
On the whole, I'm quite content with this partition scheme and not about to
change it. But YM(and your needs)MV.
Now how do you go about it? Back up everything you want to keep to tape or burn
a CDROM, wipe the disk clean (with Linux fdisk or Partition Magic from either
of the both OSes the last time you run them in that configuration) and
repartition at the same time (better check that the backup works before you do
that...). Reboot, install as little MS-ish software as you need, install Linux,
configure lilo (make boot diskettes to be sure), copy back everything from the
backup, reboot, see it work out fine, relax ;-)
Bye now, Christoph
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> Cheers
>
> Tony
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> and put Windows 98 on
> one partition and my exisiting Linux on the other ones. What is the
> best way to go about this?
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