partition size questions
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Mon Dec 3 23:38:52 UTC 2007
Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> Folks,
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> I have come across a problem relating to partitions. I have a multi
> boot box with Ubuntu 7.10, Fedora 8 and
> Win 2K. There is also a very large unallocated section of disk space.
> The two linux partitions are sitting together on an extended partition
> and I would like to make each smaller. None of the partition managers
> would allow me to shrink the partitions.
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There are some but they cost money.
> In playing with the partitions, I decided to create a new partition in
> the unallocated area and copy, one linux version at a time, delete the
> current linux partition, create a new smaller one and copy that linux
> version back. Once finished, do the other linux version. After
> creating the new partition, but before the copy, I tried to boot into
> Windows and got the BSOD.
I gather you mean the Blue Screen Of Death? You didn't say how you
booted there.
> I can rebuild, but what happened? Once I
> rebuild Windows, I know that grub will no longer work. How should I go
> about backing up what I have and then restoring it after the Windows
> build? The boot loader is being managed through Ubuntu.
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> Last thing for now, before someone shoots me for all these newbie
> questions, would you mind clearing something up for me. I thought HDx
> was for IDE drives while the SDx was for the SCSI drives. I have this
> machine I am building where the drive is SATA but it is recognized as my
> SD0 drive.
> Since F7 ALL hard drives are /dev/sdX. Alas Ubuntu uses /dev/hdX so it gets confusing :-)
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I would first get grub to boot both Linux systems. If your using the
Ubuntu grub I wish you luck. I'm about to delete Ubuntu from this
computer because it takes over the whole thing. And if I try to boot
Ubuntu from a Fedora grub it NEVER works :-(
Then boot Windows and it should work fine because you did nothing to
Windows.
Karl
> thanks,
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