Re: partition magic

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

Continuing the thread started by Robert J. Kent <k96rk01@cc.kzoo.edu>...
>>Partition Magic is commercial software...
>doh!
Is this like "doh-ray-me", or like "play-doh"?  :)

Seriously, I'm clarifying for anyone in the mailing list who is interested,
but not familiar with product names, etc.

>>... there's no such thing as a an "Extended DOS Partition"...
>quite right!  by "extended DOS partition," i meant "partition that has been
>completely divided into logical DOS partitions." ....
Ah, much clearer!

>>Now, where's your Linux partition? Is it a primary or logical partition?
>the linux partition is primary and it's at the END of the disk, so i can't
>just tell it to eat up some more space.  i think i was unclear in my last
>message: i don't intend to erase some of the DOS information and glue it
>onto the linux partition; i want to erase one of the DOS logical partitions
>and reformat that space as linux native, then mount the *new* ext2 partition
>as /usr.
I think almost anything can do this job.  I want to draw a picture.....

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                             +---------------------------+          |
|  +----------------------+   |             |             |  +-----+ |
|  | Primary FAT          |   |  Log. Fat 1 | Log. FAT 2  |  |EXT2 | |
|  +----------------------+   |             |             |  +-----+ |
|                             +---------------------------+          |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

So what I've shown is a primary FAT partition, an extended partition that
holds 2 more FAT partitons, and a Linux (EXT2) primary partition.  I
think what you want to do is kill off (for example) Logical FAT partition 2,
(which you can do with DOS FDISK), then pop into Linux and use that fdisk
to declare that space as a Linux partition, then use mke2fs on the partition,
then copy /usr over there and mount it and so on... 

is /usr currently in that EXT2 partition over there in the corner? If so, 
I would tend to use Disk Druid instead of Linux fdisk, and mark the partition
as "growable". If you were going to delete the ext2 partition later, you could 
use PM to expand the extended partition, giving the new ext2 partition room to 
grow as well. I DON'T know if you can use Disk Druid to mark pre-existing
partitions as growable, but if you could it would be nice to so mark the 
current partition, then shrink it if/when you're move /usr from there to
the new partition.  Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

In this scenario, I doubt that PM does anything for you. Tools existing in DOS
or Linux may be all you need.

>	   How do you make windows 95 faster?  Throw it harder!!
I think this is a trick question. Correct answer: You don't!


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