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Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> Hi Tero, |
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> what I meant with "redo my partitions" was in the way that I will |
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> expand my gentoo partition (or try to). |
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> I have: |
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> # df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% / |
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> udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev |
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> /dev/hda5 23G 20G 3.3G 86% /mnt/share |
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> /dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.8G 82% /mnt/windows |
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> none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm |
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> Options: |
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> - erase hda1 (win$) and merge with with hda4. |
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> - somehow rearrange hda5 (which is FAT) and split it 2, and merge a |
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> part to hda4. |
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The question is...can you live without the windows partition? if you |
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don't need it I would look at this: |
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1) Merge hda1 and hda4. Assuming this is desktop box that should be |
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plenty of space for the system and applications |
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2) Create a /boot partition (assuming you don't currently have one on |
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your box that wasn't mounted when you did the df). This way if your |
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system crashes at least /boot will not be corrupted. |
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3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of choice. Mount |
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it as /home. |
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4) Consider creating a swap partition. Even if you have plenty of RAM, |
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in my experience Linux just runs better with a swap partition mounted. |
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I would strongly suggest that you do a full backup before doing any of |
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this. I know there are partition resizing and reformatting utilities |
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but they I wouldn't trust them without a backup. |
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HTH |
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