Partitioning
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Partitioning
started by: plastic
Posted by plastic on Sep. 27 2004,14:43
I installed DSL to my hard drive, but because I had linux partitioning problems, I installed it without a swap partition, etc. I want to reinstall it again properly.
Right now my hard drive has partitions hda1 (Windows) and hda2 (for Linux), which I had made with fips.
My question: If I use cfdisk or fdisk on hda, to create hda3 and hda4, could it damage the data on hda1? Should I just use fips instead to make hda3 and hda4 so that hda1 is not damaged?
(Also, if I amcreating partitions after the hda2 which has DSL on it, do I have to do something like an 'uninstall' or somehow erase the data first?)
Thank you for your help.
Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 27 2004,15:48
| Quote (plastic @ Sep. 27 2004,10:43) | I installed DSL to my hard drive, but because I had linux partitioning problems, I installed it without a swap partition, etc. I want to reinstall it again properly.
Right now my hard drive has partitions hda1 (Windows) and hda2 (for Linux), which I had made with fips.
My question: If I use cfdisk or fdisk on hda, to create hda3 and hda4, could it damage the data on hda1? Should I just use fips instead to make hda3 and hda4 so that hda1 is not damaged?
(Also, if I amcreating partitions after the hda2 which has DSL on it, do I have to do something like an 'uninstall' or somehow erase the data first?)
Thank you for your help. |
You can always add a swapfile instead of a swapparition...its a tiny bit slower but at 100ms you wont see it!
| Quote | Operation.........................................................Command
Ensure you have sufficient ..........................................................df -h
diskspace to create the disk
Check your existing swap space...................................................swapon -s
Create a 32MB file for use as additional swap space.......................dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/swapfile count=32768 bs=1024
Confirm the new swapfile is actually..............................................ls -l /dev/swapfile 32MB in size (33554432 bytes
Convert this new file to a swap file.................................................mkswap /dev/swapfile
Add this new swap space (swapfile)................................................swapon /dev/swapfile
to your existing swap space (swap partition)
Check your new swap space..........................................................swapon s
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To make permanent add: entry to /etc/fstab
Brian
AwPhuch
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