Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

[Leigh Stewart]

i found an even better solution...

credit goes to:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Windows_after_Gentoo#Installing_Windows

(gentoo really shines in the support department)

turns out that although windows will not create a new partition at the
end of the disk, it has no problem installing to an existing partition
at the end of the disk.  i went in with my live cd, created the
partition, and then asked ntldr or w/e to install windows there and it
worked just fine.

thanks for the helpful comments :)

On 5/5/06, Leigh Stewart <agrodellic@×××××.com> wrote:
> Ok so i cant move swap into the 10Gbs i set aside for microstink at
> the end of the disk, so to move my root linux partition forward,
> should I be able to tar the entire filesystem from a livecd for
> example, then delete and recreate the partitions as needed, then untar
> the tarred filesystem into the new relocated partition?  im concerned
> that some data, configuration etc may depend on or expect to be locate
> at a certain physical location on disk...
>
> On 5/4/06, Peter <pete4abw@×××××××.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400, Leigh Stewart wrote:
> >
> > > I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used
> > > resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the
> > > device.  Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat
> > > unnerving experience because in order to resize using cfdisk u have to
> > > delete then recreate the partition, which wasn't clearly documented
> > > anywhere... Anyway, now Ive got a problem because my disk at the moment
> > > has 3 primary partitions, 1 boot part., 1 swap part, and one root part.
> > > for gentoo.
> > >
> > > the problem is i cant create a new primary partition which i need to do
> > > if i want to install windows beside gentoo, which i also need to do.
> > >
> > You can have 4 primary partitions. That is not a problem. Unless the last
> > partition begins after the 1024 cylinder boundary. In which case M$ will
> > not be happy.
> >
> > > does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and swap
> > > partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside a single
> > > primary partition? has anyone attempted this? it occurs to me that that
> > > would be the simplest solution...
> > >
> > Setting up an extended partition scheme would work fine. However, using
> > cfdisk, you cannot make the conversion without losing data. Because of
> > reiser, even a program like Partition Magic (the best for this sort of
> > manipulation) can't work.
> >
> > Given your current setup, here's what I would do. Move swap to the last
> > partition, Linux to 3, M$ to 2, and leave boot. If you use grub, you can
> > program it to boot M$ easily.
> >
> > > anyone have any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Yes. Backup. Then Backup. Then Backup again!
> > --
> > Peter
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>

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