Re: Thanks and more questions:)

[Ashley Clark]

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote:
> Secondly, does Debian have a utility that will let me repartition my drive
> without data lost?
[snip] 
> Any advice?

I don't think Debian has anything like that yet (other than
ext2resize, which as I understand is still being worked on quite
heavily). I would recommend (and use myself) PartitionMagic. I've
never had problems using it to resize and move any and all partition
types. The only problem it has is in handling the new (2.2.x) swap
partition types >128 M (it won't let you create them but it will
leave them alone)

> "God, Root. What is the difference?"
>  Pitr, User Friendly

Good quote. :-)

-- 
Ashley Clark

Thanks and more questions:)

[Jon Hughes]

First off, thanks to all of you who helped me with sound card and modules
and stuff.  Appreciate it :-)

Secondly, does Debian have a utility that will let me repartition my drive
without data lost?  I set up my paritions in a bit of a haze and have
something like

Root: 4 gigs
/usr: 5 gigs
Windows (for games, honest...) 3 gigs, 
Swap...400 megs I think
And "other" 2.5 gigs 
(I think that's right, I can't do math...)

Anyhow, after reading a few posts about making root a bit smaller for less
corruption and the like, I thought it might be nice to do that, but I don't
want to go through the work of repartitioning, formatting, installing etc.

Any advice?

Thanks again
Jon
The Linux newbie who's saving money and not buying a clue


"God, Root. What is the difference?"
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