Robby (M9.) wrote: >>> If you use the partitioner from yast, which i do, you are not able to >>> throw away, and recreate partitions, >> This _is_ possible - and I did this (on a 10.1 system) successfully. > > This is not what i mean: > suppose you have 8 partitions: /boot, /root, /usr, /opt, /var, swap, > /home and /shared. > Now you want to make changes to 5 of them. > You will have to trow them away, to recreate them, there is, as far as i > know, no other way. > Simply because if you want more room in one, it goes by the cost of the > next one. > How will you be able to make these changes and keep 3 of them, without > counting the cylinders? > I do not know...
`yast2 disk` There is a [Resize] button that you can use for resizing primary or extended partitions or LVM. Yes, there is a problem that these partitions must _not_ be mounted when you want to resize them. You can resize the partition also during installation but, I'm afraid, that not during update. >> Hmm, I had no problems - maybe you should provide more details (and/or >> upload some screenshots somewhere ;-) > > If you can throw everything away, certainly, there is no problem at all.. > If you do not want to throw away your settings, and all the files you > want to keep, you will have to save them somewhere else, or burn them. > > There is also no problem, if you want to keep your partitions the same > size, and only want to format them. > This is my workaround. > > I do not know if you have ever used Partition Magic? > That would make my story more clear... > Sometimes, after experimenting with sizes, you learn, that sizes better > can be adjusted, to get the room, wherever it is realy needed. > Especialy when the OS builds realy change, it is nessesary to adjust the > partitions to the correct size. > (the why is that the machine is much faster if the systems searchtime is > shortened. (You can keep drivers and nessesary .exes (windows)And is > much easier to clean. I noticed that after using no partitions.) > Not to use seperate partitions is out of the question, for me > > Partition Magic, from powerquest, is also thirthparty sw for windows. > Can be used to: resize, move, delete, create partitions, on a visual basis. > It counts the transactions, and processes them before starting up, > when nothing is in use. > It moves the data, resizes and renames, and that is it. > Never had a problem with it. Partition Magic sometimes needs to be run before the system is loaded but changes needs to be set in a running system, that's also not so nice. Nevertheless it has quite nice UI, that's true. AJ: Maybe it would make sense to have a special image on CD/DVD (possibly executable from Linuxrc) that would contain some r/w YaST modules, especially the partitioner. Just to tune the system. This could also solve our problem "installing openSUSE on computers with little memory" because one could prepare a swap partition before running the installation and Linuxrc (installation) offers the possibility to enable swap partition by appending a parameter to command-line. Bye Lukas
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