On Sunday 09 September 2007 00:45, Bob S wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007 01:18, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Friday 07 September 2007 11:49:51 pm Bob S wrote: > > > A while back I purchased a 250 GB Sata drive, intending to install > > > different os's and or versions of SuSE. I installed 10.2 on my shiny > > > new drive but I stupidly partitioned 3 primaries, /, /swap, and > > > /home, and used the fourth primary for the extended partition. Dumb > > > move - Out of partitions with about 150GB of free space. (I run 10.0 on > > > another small IDE drive) > > > > The extended partition is just a container for logical partitions, kind > > of virtual hard disk within real hard disk. > > So nothing to move, just add new partitions. > > Yeah,assuming that I had made the extended partition to filll up the entire > hard disk, but as I explained to Felix I cannot make the extended partion > larger without deleting it.
I already sent idea, in another post, to let us see the numbers. If you have already logical partition than extended is in use and can't be deleted, but let us see fdisk -l than we can talk about facts. > > My favorite for partitioning is command line program 'cfdisk', or > > recently YaST Partitioner that makes possible to prepare disk from > > partitioning and resizing to formating. > > The Yast partitioner is the one complaining I am not allowed to do this. The cfdisk doesn't list extended partition like fdisk. > > I use cca 10 GB for installation. > > Don't know what cca is. Sorry, cca is abbreviation for circa, Latin word that means about. > > For new installations I use old home directory, but create new users. > > That way changes in configuration of desktop (KDE, GNOME, other > > applications) doesn't interfere with older versions. > > I don't follow what you are saying here. Use the old /home directory? User 'me' I use for everyday work. /home/me/.kde has my working settings that I don't want to have messed up. User 'test' is the one that I can always remove /home/test/.kde is where new versions of KDE applications can store settings without changing settings for older versions. This way I have one /home partition, but I test new version of application with user 'test' first and if everything seems fine than I can use that for everday work, logged as user 'me'. > > The newest tool to experiment with new versions of openSUSE, Live CDs, > > other distros, is virtual machine. In openSUSE you have options to use > > QEMU, VirtualBox or Xen, but you can opt for VMware, Parallels etc. For > > details just ask Google, there is few articles on openSUSE about virtual > > machines too. > > Yeah, but any of these virtual solutions require disk space right? Disk space, RAM and some CPU power. > I understand the "virtual" concept. Can you point me to a faq, howto, URL? http://en.opensuse.org/An_Introduction_to_Virtualization http://en.opensuse.org/Virtualization_Resources_for_openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Qemu > I understand the concept to run Windows stuff on Linux but why do virtual > Linux on top of Linux? Doesn't make sense to me. :-) It is fun to have another distro without reboot, or test version that can make only virtual damage. > Thanks again for replying. > > Bob S. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
