Marc, When creating partitions on Linux, they run with numbers, and they go in order. You fstab uses these numbers to mount the partitions. If you create a new partition at the end of the drive it will get a number after the last partition, i.e. last part is 12 new will be 13. If you create the new partition before the last partition, all partitions after the new one will increment by one. So new part is 8 and old part 8 turns to 9 etc. This will mess up fstab. You will need to manually edit this before rebooting your box if you use diskdrake. You might find that diskdrake will do this for you (not used it for ages so not sure). Hope this is clear enough.
Tony. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Resnick Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition. Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows Partition. 2. Boot Linux, use Diskdrake to create a partition from the free space, place it at the end of the sector.(I want to use Linux to do this so it 'knows' that I added this partition. Last time I think the problem was that it took mdk by surprise, screwing up the labels.) 3. Do ln /home/marc /mnt/nameofpartition Sound good? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the postmaster immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com
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