Lucky you, I use spaces and they get stripped.

I use firefox too

Now back to the topic. The reason why I want my MP3s and games seperated is that I don't want them to be gone everytime I reformat my windows drive. Windows just s*** without a reformat every now and then. I already have these partitions on my hdd:

a 20G win part, 15G linux, 10G MP3, 30G Games. What I wanted to do is to install linux on my system, and delete Suse which is my current linux os. I just can't figure out how to do it properly on an hdd that already has partitions. I don't want to lose the files contained in GAMES and MP3 because it also contains my work stuff.

As of now, I still can't do without windows. I am still in the process of learning linux. The reason why I'll switch from suse to slack is that I just can't find enough space to learn linux in suse.

I have planned to reformat windows part and to split linux partition into several parts. My MP3 and GAMES should stay as is. It is FAT32 so linux can also manipulate files there. BTW how about a boot partition? Is it needed?

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Boot partition is not needed.

Hi,

Do you read answers to your post? I for one gave you good information on how to allocate partitions. Just adjust the space as you desire.

You have been suggested to use a utility to shrink your windows partition. You could copy any setup information you want to save to a cd.

As for the MP3 & GAMES, if you reformat the windows partition then the GAMES will need to be re-installed. The MP3s' could be copied to another computer HD. Or you could tar them and copy them to another HD or backup to cd.

Or just do a backup to save the configuration as is!

YOU, will have to decide how the system is saved and what should be copied or deleted. The configuration suggested are just that suggestions. You can adapt them as you see fit.

Getting rid of SUSE is not a big issue.

Enough said!

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HTH!

Thanks, phil, I will try it next time.

big thanks to you gwsandvik. I'll do the partitioning after the semester just to play safe.