On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 22:38, Julie Sloan wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 22 January 2005 10:32 am, Julie Sloan wrote: > > > >>I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully > >>during the reinstall will set up a storage partition or two. > >>I'm dualbooting WinXP and Mandrake; have the Win on the > >>original harddrive and Mandrake on its own, separate, hd. I > >>can "see" into windoze from Mandrake but cannot write to it. > >> > > Actually you seem to have alot'a snap for a newbie. > > I hope I've learned a little bit in six months?? But a lot of what you > say from here on looks like alphabet soup on the first pass :) So I'll > read it again, slower... > > > In the > > re-install, make a separate /home dir this time ;) Also, IME, > > one real big /stor dir is better than many. > > Why one real big /stor dir? Wouldn't it be better to have new downloads > (from unknown sources; I don't mean rpms) go to a separate partition to > isolate them just "in case", and to have certain types of large files, > for instance MP3s, default to their own space? > > > As to 'see' into Win$ux, that why I left it at 'complicated'. > > M$ ntfs FS's (and there are several versions), can be read by > > Linux, but write support is (intentionally by M$) dangerous and > > not supported. I'm not even sure if a tarball stored on ntfs can > > be transferred to Linux. > > Yes it can - is how I got a modem driver when linux wasn't recognizing > my conexant last summer. D/L'ed it into WinXP & then cp'd it into Mandrake. > > > BTW, when you re-install I recommend ReiserFS. And make a > > separate /boot partition (~50mb's, ext3). Ratio of '/' to > > '/home' will depend on how much total space you have, but IME, > > 8gig for '/' and 12gig for /home is plenty ... specially if you > > set aside storage space. For small Linux 'only' drives (<13gig), > > I believe putting everything one big 'ol '/' partition, with a > > suitable /swap partition is best use. > > Thanks for the suggestions. I have 200G total on two drives, but 80 of > that has Win$ux spread all over it. If I make a, say, 20G partition on > the 120G drive, (where my crippled Mandrake 10.0 is now) then move (?) > the 4G of WinXP OS into it, could I reformat that 80G into storage > space? The thought of it is pretty daunting; I am very new to this and > know very little command-line stuff. > > When you refer to '/' , is that where /mnt is now, and is that where I'd > access other partitions from, once I have them? > Windows doesn't like being moved - you'll need to backup your data and re-install.
The '/' Tom mentions refers (here) to the partitioning - when you are asked about mount points when you install he suggests (at least) two partitions '/' and '/home'. Under / you will probably see other directories, including /mnt. If you format the 80G into a FAT32 partition, both linux and XP could read and write to it.
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