PartitianMagic is a Windows Program and IMHO really good, however you still run the risk of loosing data while you move it from the area you are giving back to windows --Slosh
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Beveridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: RE: Newbie Joining you should be able to use cfdisk to resize your partitions - however it's not very graphical, or particularly friendly & you could possibly trash your partition :) Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Downie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:36 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Newbie Joining > > > Hi Guys, > > I have taken advise and will now pester the list for help. My > long term goal is to be MS > free, my short term goal is to go longer than 25 days without > a BSOD (or equivalent). > I'm afraid I can't impress you with a flash system, all I > have to play with is a Cyrix > 233MMX, 224Mb and 4.3Gb. I took Jason's advise at the > installfest and got another > HDD for Linux (the aforementioned 4.3Gb). I have previously > being running Mandrake > 8.0 and 9.0 on a 1Gb partition with Win2k on the primary HDD. > > I wish to start from scratch again on the new HDD. Please > assume I have a very basic > understanding of Linux. > > So my first two questions are: > > How do I give back the 1Gb partition to Windows? > > Other than root, swap and home, should I have any other > directory on a seperate > partition? > > Cheers, > Chris > > >
