[wplug] Self-Introduction (and GNU Parted)

Mark Haney haney01 at email.franklin.edu
Thu Aug 22 17:34:15 EDT 2002


It was Windows98 second edition, and the partition is FAT32.

>Mark
>
>Which version of Win98 did you resize and was the filing system FAT16 or
>FAT32?
>
>Tom
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Haney [mailto:haney01 at email.franklin.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 1:26 PM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] Self-Introduction (and GNU Parted)
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm a relatively new Linux user who just joined the list today. I've had
>Redhat
>installed on my desktop (triple boot with Windows 98 and Chinese Windows 95)

>for a few years, but only recently decided to make it my primary platform.

>With
>Windows, I either have to steal software or pay way too much for software --

>both bad options. With Linux I can have fun, control my system, and learn a

>lot.
>
>The only problem was that when I set up my system a few years ago, I just
>wanted
>to try Linux, so I only gave the Linux partition around 1 Gig, vs 6 Gig for

>Windows. Now that I will use Linux for a lot more things, I need more space!

>
>
>I thought about using FIPS to shrink the Windows partition, and then
>re-installing
>Linux. Then, I heard about GNU Parted, a program that can not only resize
>partitions,
>but also move files around beforehand to create the necessary free space at

>the end of the partition. I had tried using FIPS on my Windows ME laptop,
>but
>the defrag program that comes with Windows ME always left some files at the

>end of the disk, so I ended up killing my Windows and having to re-start
>with
>the recovery disk that came with the computer. Because of this experience,
I
>was happy to skip the defrag step and give Parted a try. I downloaded the
>RPM
>from
>http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/
>installed it, and then started the program. At the prompt, I typed "print"

>to
>see my current partitioning scheme, then typed "resize 2 467 3500" (the
>numbers
>are starting and ending point of the partition in MB, I think) to resize the

>Windows partition. It had extended from 467 to around 6500, so I was making

>about 3 Gig of free space that my Linux Re-install could use. The program
>didn't
>give me any indication of it's status, but I figured it was working because

>I could hear my hard disk buzzing like crazy. Then, it gave me the prompt
>again.
>I typed "print", and it showed the new partition scheme, with my Windows
>partition
>resized, and the free space there. 
>
>I installed Redhat 7.2, made some tweaks to my lilo.conf, and now I have a

>Linux
>partition with 4.2 Gig, and I can boot into all three OSs with no problem.

>Yeah!
>
>
>Sorry for the long story... I am just very happy that Parted worked so
>simply
>and smoothly.
>
>I've heard that the Mandrake distribution comes with some software, called

>Diskdrake,
>that is based on Parted code, and that will do the resizing and
>repartitioning
>during the install. I may pick up Mandrake and try to install it on my
>WindowsME
>laptop. Do any of you have experience with Installing Mandrake on a machine

>that currently has only Windows on the hard drive?
>
>Thanks,
>Mark Haney
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