--- "der.hans" <
PLUGd@LuftHans.com> wrote:
> Am 25. Aug, 2005 schwätzte Josh Coffman so:
>
> > My kids started fighting over playing Tux games
> on
> > my laptop. So i figured I would dual boot the
> > desktop...
> >
> > I backed-up, defragged, and booted a livecd
> (Mepis)
> > to shrink the partition.
> >
> > Well Mepis messed up. I like Mepis and was
> planning
> > on using it for the desktop. But now I couldn't do
> > anything. Actually, it was QTParted that caused
> the
> > problem.
> >
> > fixmbr didn't work, couldn't install windows,
> Mepis
> > couldn't install. I tried a couple others that
> > couldn't fix it. Anyway, Fedora Core 4 installed
> > great. I just told it to use the whole disk an
> remove
> > any previous partitions.
> >
> > Thing is I was planning on partitioning the drive
> so I
> > could at least have seperate /home and /swap. That
> way
> > I could easily switch distros without deleting
> > everyone's files.
> >
> > Now I'm a little gun-shy about trying to shring a
> > partition again, but I'd like to be able to switch
> > distros if I feel like it. Suggestions?
>
> Well, the way to do it is the tool that already
> burned you...
>
> parted is the tool to use to resize the partitions.
> Maybe you missed a
> step or it just didn't handle the m$ filesystem
> properly.
>
> Dennis highly recommends system rescue cd for
> parted, but I would think
> anything that has a current version would be fine.
>
> I recently looked at the parted documentation and
> they mentioned problems
> with ntfs that had only recently been overcome. I've
> only used parted a
> couple of times, though, so take advice from others
> about it as being more
> relevant.
>
> You should already have a swap partition. Look at
> /etc/fstab and output
> from 'free'.
>
> $ grep swap /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda6 none swap sw
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 none swap sw
> 0 0
> $ free
> total used free shared
> buffers cached
> Mem: 515824 506436 9388 0
> 9376 161008
> -/+ buffers/cache: 336052 179772
> Swap: 1474708 737628 737080
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
> --
i used parted on mepis 3.3.1, which is probably a
little older and may not have the ntfs fixes... so
that makes sense.
funny thing is that mepis's support for ntfs is part
of the reason I was going to use it...
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