On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 22:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > parted is very safe. And it's actually quite easy to use. If you can use > ftp (or any other pseudo-shell program) you'll be right at home in > parted. And if you want to learn more about linux, using a Windows > program such as PM won't help matters much will it? :)
>From GNU's parted webpage (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) under Features: "For ext2, ext3 and reiserfs: the start of the partition must stay fixed." This would prevent me from doing what I had intended. Does this mean I must use Partition Magic, or do you know of other Linux-side tools? (I did a quick look, but discovered nothing substantial) Also, someone was telling me that if I wanted to resize the / partition I would have to boot to another partition (say, a floppy) and perform the operations while / was not mounted. Does this sound accurate? > Exactly. And, actually, if you roll your own kernel "The Debian Way", > you won't even need to do that much. The package does it for you. > > You don't have it so bad now since your Windows partition is FAT32, so > you can at least write the bootsect.lnx to it from linux. I had an NTFS > partition, so I had to boot into windows anytime I recompiled my kernel. > I'll never be able to get that Windows startup sound out of my head. :) Ouch, I can see why you switched. In an earlier post you had mentioned how odd it was to have /boot located where it was, and why - in that location - to have it at all. Those partitions were left from an earlier version of Red Hat that I was playing around with some time ago (before I installed woody), and that was its default/recommended disk setup. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
