[Tfug] Partition Second Drive

Tue Oct 31 17:24:20 MST 2006

Hi Joe:

Not familiar with Virtual PC so after looking at different methods of 
copying my Linux partition to the new drive, I decided on a new install on 
the new drive and then installed old files from my backups.  Got a lot of 
pop-ups about dcop server not running and therefore KDE wouldn't start but 
it started.  The pop-ups eventually stopped on their own or for reasons 
unknown to me.

I used fdisk to delete the old Linux partition and then used YaST to resize 
the W2K ntfs partition on the old drive to use the space I had used for 
Linux.  Worked fine and didn't lose any files.  YaST has a program called 
ntfsresize incorporated and it worked really well.

>From: "Joe Blais" <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com>
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>Hello Don -
>
>I've never used the PM stuff either - so -- I just wanted to say
>partitioniong would be my last resort if  just trying out a bunch of
>different things, when something like Virtual PC might be able to do the
>same thing -- that's what I did anyway when I was evaluating different 
>Linux
>distributions and releases.
>
>I did like the Virtual PC though -- I haven't looked for anything like that
>for Linux.  I saw that micorzfth changed or dropped Linux support for
>VirtualPC when they acquired that company.
>
>Joe
>
>
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>Hi, Joe,
>
>[grrr... this only just now arrived in my mailbox.
>I suspect this yahoo account is hosed.  I should
>find an alternate host!]
>
>--- Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:
>
> > I think only primary partitions can boot
> > And usually if you do any partitioning, anything in
> > those partitions that were changed is lost
> > I think things like Partition Magic are supposed to
> > move stuff around so you
> > can save what is in a partition but I don't know
>
>PM will, indeed, let you tinker with partitions
>in ways that FDISK, et al. can't imagine.  I just
>used an old copy of PM to grow a 2G FAT32 parition
>(which was created from a 2G FAT16 partition) to
>an 8G partition.  All without losing the contents of
>that partition.
>
>Unfortnately, the version of PM that I have won't
>grow to anything *larger* than 8G  :-/
>
>Backup partitions before dicking with them!  :>
>
>--don
>
>
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