RedHat 9 Additional Partitioning

JC404 · 07-05-2003, 07:40 PM

I'm planning on formatting the 80gb hard drive which has Windows XP on it and replace it with RH9. The problem now is I want to partition 60gb of it for other stored files so that I wouldn't have to format the whole hard drive if I need to replace the os in case of major problems. How can I partition it without the partition being replaced by the RH9 installation process?

Also, I want to automount drives which I could read and write from. What is your recommended type of format?

zmedico · 07-05-2003, 09:40 PM

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Originally posted by JC404
How can I partition it without the partition being replaced by the RH9 installation process?

The redhat installer will let you install on an existing partion and/or allow you to create new partition(s). Existing partitions can be left intact.

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Also, I want to automount drives which I could read and write from. What is your recommended type of format?

I'm no filesystem expert but ext3 works well for me.