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bootable HDD partitioner on CD???

hello, everyone!

I've just descimated the windows partition on my computer and i need to repartition the drive here's a little mental picture of my setup ATM:

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Drive/Part Size    Used    Free      Mount

HDA: Maxtor 40 GB  98.5%  589.9 MB  /mnt/C

HDB: WDC    30 GB  ------------------------

HDB1:      24 GB  76%    5.7 GB    /mnt/D

HDB2:    98.7 MB  19.1%  80 MB    /boot

HDB3:      4.4 GB  73%    1.2 GB    /

what i want to do is kill HDB1 and resize HDB3 with enough space left over for a 5GB windows partition. will disk druid (on the redhat install cd) let me do this??

Re: bootable HDD partitioner on CD???

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Originally posted by bennyp
will disk druid (on the redhat install cd) let me do this??

No you'll need to use parted. You can use linux rescue mode to get a bash prompt with no HDD filesystems mounted.

Just reboot with CD1 on the drive and type:
linux rescue

at the boot prompt.