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Topic: Multiple Partitions, how do I do it?

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Chaos750

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Posted: Nov. 14 2004,21:39

Right now I've got DSL all running off of 1 small partition. After reading all the HowTo's saying you should use multiple partitions, I was planning to set it up like this:

hda1: Windows (1gb)
hda2: / (300 mb)
hda3: Swap (50 mb)
hda...: whatever (~740 mb)

So like I said, everything is in hda2, and I'm almost out of space, obviously. My first question is what type of setup would you reccomend, and more importantly, how would I go about doing it? Do you just make the partitions and then copy over the directory you want? ie if I wanted /usr in a separate partition, would I just copy everything in /usr over and then delete the originals? I hope this makes sense, I'm new at this.

Thanks in advance for any replys.

AwPhuch

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,03:06

Quote (Chaos750 @ Nov. 14 2004,16:39)

I would recommend getting a "LiveCD" utility distro called Ultimate Boot CD
Using its partition utility build the partitions how you want and then use the installer to build on the drive, its alot easier than trying to do it manually using the cfdisk or fdisk to do

Brian
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Nmeumonic

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,05:07

I have a similar problem. I installed DSL on a 4 gig drive and partioned off 300mb for it. I then got the idea of making another 2gig partion to save my music on, then make the rest of the drive for misc. stuff. When I went to partition the drive, it said it partitioned it, but the partition table couldn't be read. I made it a linux partition, if you thought that was the problem. I rebooted, tried to mount and/or save data to it, this is what I got:
Tried to mount; Device is busy, not responding, etc...
Tried to save; Device couldn't be found in (some directory or log, I forget.) Sorry if that last one is vague, I'm at work at the moment, and don't know the exact error message.
I was just hoping someone else has experianced this, knows how to fix it, and is willing to share.

Ninja-school
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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,09:48

If you have partitioned your hard drive too many times you break it,
I did this with an old hd, but it fixed itself after a while.
Once you have made a partition table try not to change it.

skaos

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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,11:17

Nmeumonic: If you don't mind wiping the whole disk (including partition table), you could use Darik's Boot and Nuke, http://dban.sourceforge.net/. Wipe the whole disk, not the partitions - this should fix the problem with the partitions.

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