RE: slightly ot but oracle/linux related
- From: "Nelson Flores" <nflores@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:38:37 -0800
That's true of the newer versions.
I did it a while back to create a linux partition for mandrake, and now
I have tri-boot (using the windows boot manager - I decided against
using lilo or grub as they always seem to crash on me :( ).
BTW, the 1024 cylinder limit is only for *some* hard drives + older
bios...
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Jared,
That doesn't quite ring true with me. I'm sure that with newer versions
V8 and
above you can achieve adding a Linux partition even if you've got
NTFS/FAT on
the machine e.g. in simple terms:
- shrink the FAT/NTFS partition
- Partition up the new free space and away you go
BTW I always make sure that the Linux boot partition is below 1024 Cyls
just to
be on the safe side.
I do remember there was a some sort of limitation with Windows 2000 NTFS
/
Linux at PM V5 and below but I can't remember exactly what.
Anyway as usual there are many ways to sucessfully partition a disk and
as long
as it works who cares.
Cheers,
Chris
Quoting Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I once purchased Partition Magic for this purpose.
>
> I forget what the problem is/was, but it doesn't work
> for splitting a FAT/NTFS partition for the purpose
> of adding a linux partition.
>
> cfdisk/druid/fdisk/what_have_you on the other hand *does* work.
>
> Jared
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 06:37, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> > On 02/19/2004 09:24:28 AM, mkb wrote:
> > > Also note that SuSE 9.0 comes with a disk partitioning
> > > utility.
> > >
> > > I had already installed WinXP o and it took all of my
> > > 80gb hd. I then installed SuSE 9.0 and was able to
> > > partition the disk in half so that WinXP has about
> > > 37gb and SuSE has the other 37gb.
> > >
> > > I'm surprised RH doesn't a similar functionality.
> > >
> >
> > It does come with that functionality. RH has several utilities which
> > do exactly that, fdisk and parted among other things. Those
utilities
> > are not gooey, but command line and can do whatever YaST2 or some
other
> > gooey tool can do. Bottom line is that disk partitioning is not
> > for beginners or fainthearted people. If you know what you're doing,
> > you can do it with fdisk. If you don't know what you're doing and
> > you're doing it anyway, you should have been a politician.
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