Hello
I just got a friends old computer persario desktop 5000 with amd 1000 mHz 128m ram nothin special I was using fedora core 3 but it was to slow on this machine so i nistalled mandriva 10.2 (2005 LE). I hav a 37 ?? gig HD my root partition is only 8 gig and my swap just 1 gig and my /home is like 29 gig i tried using MCC to change the size of the partitions but it just tells me the device is busy and that it cant unmount the partition ??? Im lost

Thanks to any ideas in advance

If all else fails just reinstall rite hahahahaha ...........

If you already installed Mandriva, then you cannot resize the partition as you're already in Mandriva (it's in use). The only partition that may be resizable would be the /home partition since system files may not be in use, but you'd have to unmount it.

I would advise reinstalling rather than trying to repartition while you're using the operating system.

If you WANT to resize the /home partition, at least, open the terminal

su
(root password)
umount /home

Now you should be able to resize the /home partition, at least.

But again, I advise that you reinstall and make your partition sizing during the reinstallation.

Good luck

You can resize the partition by booting the Mandrake install CD and doing the repartitioning there, you can then just reboot the computer if you don't want to reinstall. You could also do it by booting a LiveCD such as MandrakeMove, PCLinuxOS or Knoppix, all of which have nice GUI partitioning programs on them (the first 2 have the Mandrake one).

Hi there,

Your root and home partitions are the correct size if you have a 40 gig drive. The bulk of your work, saved files will go in the more roomy home partition, your small system files in root.

The swap file is more than enough!

Looks perfect to me.

OK thanks everyone

I guess I'll do some more reading

I wouldn't call that a old PC. If it had 256 MB RAM it could be use professionaly without any problems and I would consider it a almost-new computer. With that processor and that RAM you can even run KDE normally. =)

I know but I only hav 128m of ram. I'll get more in time but for noe it seams to be ok just alil slow. Thanks