Well, you should do that from within Windows partition with the help of disk partitioner software (such as Paragon or Partition Magic). Mandrake will recognize it far better than Windows, I think.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Sch Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] XP/MDK dual boot -- setting up shared FAT32 partition On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:16:26 -0500 Chuck MATTSEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Okay, I've been avoiding doing this for awhile, for fear of borking > something, but it's time. :-) > > I have a 40GB HD, with a dual boot setup of XP Pro and Mandrake. > Previously, I had pared down the size of the XP partition, so that my > current allocation is as follows: > > XP Pro NTFS hda1 14 GB > unassigned -- -- 9.7 GB > / ext3 hda5 5.8 GB > swap -- hda6 0.5 GB > /home ext3 hda7 6.5 GB > > I'd like to make the currently unassigned drive space (or most of it, > anyway) a FAT32 shared data partition, but want to make sure that I > understand the procedure -- and any potential problem areas -- before > I attempt it, as I'd /like/ to leave the current installation and data > intact, rather than doing so via a wipe/reinstall. > > So, questions: > (Feel free to dumb down your answers to the appropriate level of > understanding ... i.e., you can't go /too/ low :-), as you can no > doubt tell by the questions themselves.) > > 1. Am I correct in assuming that, because Windows flavors tend not to > play well with others, that the formatting/assignment of the free > space to FAT32 should be done from within Mandrake, or not? If so, > would I then have trouble getting XP to recognize it. > > 2. Regardless of where the operation is performed, the drive > assignments (currently hda5-7) would end up getting renumbered, > correct? If so, will Mdk handle this automatically, or need I be > prepared to do some manual editing of config files? > > 3. Running a laptop, and having run into a failed resume cycle > yesterday, I'm thinking the fail may have been due to the resume data > being written to the current swap partition? If so, would it then > make sense to take some relatively small amount of that free space and > set it aside for such purpose. > > What I probably really need is a detailed step-by-step before I'm > comfortable performing this, but I certainly don't expect anyone here > to go to such lengths. So, if anyone has a pointer to a really > //basic// step-by-step, a link would be appreciated. All I've found > so far is either not Mandrake-specific or details only part of the > procedure/concept. > > TIA, > >WARNING.. that unassigned space can/must only be created as PRIMARY partitions. Only two more can be done. There is various tools to do this. Depending on what you have. Partition Magic can do it. Rescue cdrom can do it. Can be done with mandrake distro . but you must know what you are doing. good luck -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning
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