how to partition a harddisk??
 

Hello everybody,

i am using Suse 8.0 and would like to test Linux From Scratch, to get a better understanding whats going on behind Linux. So i have to partition my existing root partition. I tried it with yast. But why am i not able to change the size of a partition even when there 's freespace left and create an new one?

You have to know that i am an old windows kid and thought that this is an easy task as partition with partition magic or something like that. What am i doing / understanding wrong??

Any help would be appreciated :)

Greets Sam

I think the problem is that your root partition is mounted. You must first unmount it to be able to resize it.

Try a program called Parted and check here on how to make a boot disk so you can do what you want.

Be sure to read the docs though cuz messing with your partitions could mess up your data.

HC

That might mess stuff up, you don't have free space anywhere else?

I 've got 3 harddrives installed, one is completly free. Its mounted as follows:

/dev/sdb 8.5 GB DPSS-309170N
/dev/sdb1 8.5 GB Linux native /home/ftp-ocs/UPLOADz


but if i am trying to create i get an error there is no more space left... okay this is not to hard to understand... but how am i able to move or degress the space which is used on sdb1 to create a new one??

Greets Sam

# Freeware partitioning software
Ranish Partition Manager
Tom's Root and Boot Floppy has Linux fdisk

Re: how to partition a harddisk??
 

well, partition magic worked without a hitch when i was resizing my partitions in Linux...

:)

use parted its cool & relaible .. i chucked away pmagic after i found parted on linux.. just go thru the help beofre u start off... its easy

well. juby is right... parted should do the job well too....

:)