partition magic options

ganja_guru · 08-26-2004, 02:09 PM

ive decided to give more storage space to linux and so im using partition magic to assign 15Gb of free space to a Linux partition(free space from a fat32 partition)...

some questions...im using slack 10.0 and kernel 2.6.8

1)should create the drive as logical or primary?

2)im using reiserfs for my root partition...but PM only gives an ext2/3 option...how do i convert the extra space to reiserfs?

thanks...

hw-tph · 08-26-2004, 05:02 PM

1) Logical or primary is your choice. You can either have four primary partitions, or you can have three primary partitions plus N logical ones (contained in a container partition called extended partition).

2) Just free up the space with Partition Magic and then create the partition while you're in Linux. mkreiserfs /dev/hda4 would create a ReiserFS filesystem on the last primary partition on your first IDE disk.

Håkan

ganja_guru · 08-26-2004, 07:51 PM

thanks very much!