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| Don't ask how I got to this stage, but here's my present partition scheme,
from cfdisk:
hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 2179.70
hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 633.35
hda6 Logical Linux ext2 [BOOT] 263.21
Logical Free Space 3388.82
hda7 Logical Linux ext3 [ROOT] 85904.83
hda8 Logical Linux ext3 [HOME] 96638.82
hda9 Logical Linux ext3 [USR] 30071.63
hda10 Logical Linux ext3 [VAR] 30976.41
hda1 never had Win95, but Win98. I formatted it to ext3, but as you can
see, it's not identified as such.
I assume that hda1 should be the BOOT partition - correct? I can move
files from hda6 to hda1, but hda1 is way too much space for that. I'd
also like to get that "Free Space" into hda8 - HOME. I use grub, and
despite my fooling around, it still boots ( thank goodness). I tried
qtparted from a live cd, but it seems I can't resize or move partitions
with it.
I don't know if I'm being clear enough here, but any advice, hints,
pointers, greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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| On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:40:52 -0400, edju wrote:
> Don't ask how I got to this stage, but here's my present partition scheme,
> from cfdisk:
>
> hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 2179.70
> hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 633.35
> hda6 Logical Linux ext2 [BOOT] 263.21
> Logical Free Space 3388.82
> hda7 Logical Linux ext3 [ROOT] 85904.83
> hda8 Logical Linux ext3 [HOME] 96638.82
> hda9 Logical Linux ext3 [USR] 30071.63
> hda10 Logical Linux ext3 [VAR] 30976.41
>
> hda1 never had Win95, but Win98. I formatted it to ext3, but as you can
> see, it's not identified as such.
>
> I assume that hda1 should be the BOOT partition - correct? I can move
> files from hda6 to hda1, but hda1 is way too much space for that. I'd
> also like to get that "Free Space" into hda8 - HOME. I use grub, and
> despite my fooling around, it still boots ( thank goodness). I tried
> qtparted from a live cd, but it seems I can't resize or move partitions
> with it.
>
> I don't know if I'm being clear enough here, but any advice, hints,
> pointers, greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Try Gparted - the Gparted Live CD is really very good. In addition to
reformatting the partition, you also need to change the flag that tells
what type it is.
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| AJackson 2007-04-05, 1:15 pm |
| On Apr 5, 4:40 am, edju <e...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Don't ask how I got to this stage, but here's my present partition scheme,
> from cfdisk:
>
> hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 2179.70
> hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 633.35
> hda6 Logical Linux ext2 [BOOT] 263.21
> Logical Free Space 3388.82
> hda7 Logical Linux ext3 [ROOT] 85904.83
> hda8 Logical Linux ext3 [HOME] 96638.82
> hda9 Logical Linux ext3 [USR] 30071.63
> hda10 Logical Linux ext3 [VAR] 30976.41
>
> hda1 never had Win95, but Win98. I formatted it to ext3, but as you can
> see, it's not identified as such.
>
> I assume that hda1 should be the BOOT partition - correct? I can move
> files from hda6 to hda1, but hda1 is way too much space for that. I'd
> also like to get that "Free Space" into hda8 - HOME. I use grub, and
> despite my fooling around, it still boots ( thank goodness). I tried
> qtparted from a live cd, but it seems I can't resize or move partitions
> with it.
>
> I don't know if I'm being clear enough here, but any advice, hints,
> pointers, greatly appreciated. Thanks.
As written, gparted is a good choise.
What file does is defining how bits are orderd in the partition. So
it has nothing to do with partition type, that is something else.
So set partition type first, with gparted /dev/hda or cfdisk /dev/hda,
on hda1 (and nothing else).
You do not need to have hda1 as a boot partition. hda6 works well. If
you have OLD hardware, the BIOS cant load to far from the disks
beginning, so you realy need a small partition in beginning on
those.
Newer BIOS can boot from any place on disk.
Good luck
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| Mister B 2007-04-07, 1:14 am |
| On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:40:52 -0400, edju wrote:
> Don't ask how I got to this stage, but here's my present partition scheme,
> from cfdisk:
>
> hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 2179.70
> hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 633.35
> hda6 Logical Linux ext2 [BOOT] 263.21
> Logical Free Space 3388.82
> hda7 Logical Linux ext3 [ROOT] 85904.83
> hda8 Logical Linux ext3 [HOME] 96638.82
> hda9 Logical Linux ext3 [USR] 30071.63
> hda10 Logical Linux ext3 [VAR] 30976.41
>
> hda1 never had Win95, but Win98. I formatted it to ext3, but as you can
> see, it's not identified as such.
>
> I assume that hda1 should be the BOOT partition - correct? I can move
> files from hda6 to hda1, but hda1 is way too much space for that. I'd
> also like to get that "Free Space" into hda8 - HOME. I use grub, and
> despite my fooling around, it still boots ( thank goodness). I tried
> qtparted from a live cd, but it seems I can't resize or move partitions
> with it.
>
> I don't know if I'm being clear enough here, but any advice, hints,
> pointers, greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Moving partions around with the QParted CD isn't blindingly obvious. If I
recall correctly you need to first move the other partions so the free space
is next to the partition you want to grow. In your case you would have to
select HDA7 and move it to the left, then grow HDA8.
The "BOOT" partion of HDA6 doesn't contain the disk format structure that
controls the partitions. Most likely it is just the Linux kernel and files
to start your Linux system. If you can still boot into Win98 you didn't
format HDA1 as Ext3.
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