I have received those error messages when I have loaded up Partition Magic (7.0) as well - I haven't done anything yet though.
You mentioned a rescue CD, how do I go about creating one? Is that a PartitionMagic rescue CD or a Linux rescue CD? Instead of creating new partitions, do you know if it is possible to shift the /boot and beginng of / down into the free space (thereby increasing the size of /)? Thanks for the info, Andrew On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 00:59, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Andrew Biggadike wrote: > > I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and > > I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the > > Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations > > as to the best way to go about doing this? > > If I use a Windows tool, such as PartitionMagic, is it true that I won't > > have to modify anything within Linux in order for it to function > > properly? If not, what would I need to do? > > If I wanted to do it from Linux, how would I go about doing it? > > > > I guess the main thing, obviously, is that I don't want to break > > anything; I'd just like some more room to play with on this end. I've > > cleaned up and defragmented the Windows partition. Links to HOWTOs and > > other helpful documentation should be sufficient. Thanks, > > > > Andrew > > > > Oh, and in case it matters: > > hda1 FAT32 16861.83 > > hda2 Linux ext2 /boot 49.36 > > hda3 Linux ext2 / 2558.07 > > hda5 Linux swap 534.65 > > > > > > I am in this situation with the exception that my Windows 2000 partition > is NTFS so I assumed off the bat that there wouldn't be a linux > solution. I've resized by NTFS partition twice. My method was to just > shrink the NTFS to create free space and then use nparted in linux to > actually create the new partitions. I used Partition Magic. When you > open it up, it(at least for me) will claim that the partition table has > 'errors' and offer to fix them. You pretty much don't have a choice if > you want to use the program so go along. In the process of fixing the > errors, it will randomly renumber the partitions at which point you may > or may not be able to boot into linux. Finish resizing the windows > partition and try to reboot into linux(you may get lucky). If not boot > from a rescue CD and fix /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo at > which point you shouldn't have any problems... Though you may have > significantly more options since your windows partition isn't NTFS... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
