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10-11-2004, 01:30 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: raleigh
Distribution: Gentoo 2005.1 x86_64
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partitioning programs
Ok ive got an 80 gig hard drive with about 40 a piece to windows and linux. windows has a 15 for the OS and the rest for storage. Im running out of space on both the os part and the storage and i want to move some from linux. i tried qtpart or whatever its called before when i was doing something similar and it messed up my linux partition. is there a tool out there that workls good for thiese kinds of things. i dont want to have to reformat either one.
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10-11-2004, 02:38 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Eastern PA, USA
Distribution: K/Ubuntu 18.04-14.04, Scientific Linux 6.3-6.4, Android-x86, Pretty much all distros at one point...
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Your best bet is to use a proprietary propgram like Partition Commander or the like...
Mandrake's DiskDrake does a good job of moving things safetly, but I haven't seen it's functionality in any other Linux-based OpenSource Tool,... especially for a distro like Gentoo.
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10-11-2004, 02:43 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2: Who needs exmmpkg when you have emerge?
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Parted works with Ext2, try that from a bootdisk.
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10-11-2004, 06:24 PM
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i forgot to mention my linux part is reiserfs
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10-11-2004, 06:40 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Fargo, ND
Distribution: SuSE AMD64
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I just resized the reiserfs partition on my laptop to make room to install Mandrake Linux AMD64. I used the resize tool in the setup ( It's called diskdrake ). My SuSE installation was OK after being resized by this tool. Perhaps downloading the Mandrake Live CD and using this tool will work for you.
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10-11-2004, 08:38 PM
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i think i have mandrake 9 somethwere will that work or do they hacve a seperate live cd
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10-12-2004, 07:20 PM
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Fargo, ND
Distribution: SuSE AMD64
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Mandrake 9 should work. Just don't go past the partition resizing stage in the setup. I believe the the program they use to resize the partition was written by 'partition magic'.
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10-12-2004, 10:25 PM
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so are you saying i should boot up nto the mandrake 9 cd and go through it liek iw as installin git and just stiop after i finish resizing the partition? will that mes sup anything?
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