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10gb enough for Mandrake/Redhat/Gentoo?

post #1 of 10
1/4/05 at 7:13pm
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Simple enough. Will 10gb of my hard drive be enough to efficiently run either of these Linux distros? Also, on an unrelated note, is it possible that I reformat my C: partition into 2 partitions without losing my D: partition (which has almost a hundred gigs worth of shtuff on it that can't be temporarily transported anywhere, unless someone loans me an external dvdrw )? If it matters, my HD is a Western Digital WD2000JB.
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post #2 of 10
1/4/05 at 7:27pm
10gb it is fine
and yes if they are seperate partitions C and D then it SHOULD be fine and easy
but if it has stuff you dont want to lose you may want to look into better tools than fdisk (eg partition magic etc) at least, just to be safe
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post #3 of 10
1/4/05 at 8:17pm
Hi,

(1) Yes, 10GB is more than enough. With Gentoo, you might feel a slight pinch because compiling takes a lot of space. But, the others should be perfectly okay.

(2) Yes, you can erase your first partition and make 2 partitions out of it. The D: partition would not be affected, although the drive letter might change in Windows (not likely, though.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #4 of 10
1/4/05 at 9:33pm
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K, thanks.
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post #5 of 10
1/4/05 at 10:41pm
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Ok, OT about PartitionMagic 8.0 Eval copy: WTF it doesnt make the changes when i click apply!?!? do i need to get the registered copy or what here? Help!
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post #6 of 10
1/4/05 at 11:33pm
Yes the eval does everything that the full one does except repartition. Gotta use the full version. There are other apps out there that will do it. Check out google. If you have fat32 parted will do the trick. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
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post #7 of 10
1/5/05 at 2:20am
i think parted is Linux only but there are others
but anyway partition magic is common enough that one can acquire the registered version easily (i mean buy it of course, i don't encourage piracy)
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post #8 of 10
1/5/05 at 2:26am
If you are going to format that partition anyway, most Linux Distros will allow you to format and repartition drives. Heck, even Windows installs allow you to repartition a drive. If you don't want to lose the data on that partition however you will need something like Partition Magic.
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post #9 of 10
1/5/05 at 4:47am
Qtparted is a partition magic clone that is 100% free, and it partitions everything, including ntfs. The best way to get it is to dowload sysresccd ( a bootable live linux rescue cd) at http://www.sysresccd.org/
I'd recommend u backup that important info first though, but if u've no way to back it up then yes part magic indeed.
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post #10 of 10
1/5/05 at 9:07am
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Thanks guys, this really helped me. And @ bob, I think I'll just go for one of the free alternatives. I think Knoppix might have a few of these drive tools, too, but I'm not interested in looking now (it's insanely slow for me running from the CD drive).
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