Charles Bradshaw
Flashlight Enthusiast
Some time ago, I got Poser 4 (3D CGI), and decided to dedicated one of my three 60 GB hdds. So I had to remove Mandrake Linux to do this. Well, I found that I am not using as much hard disk space as I thought I would be.
The fun part is resizing, moving, copying, and deleting partitions, without destroying their contents or order. This does take quite a while to do, and I have Windows partitions (drives) C - J.
Step 1: figuring out just how much space you can prune.
Step 2: deciding where you want the partitions.
Step 3: go through the process, which takes hours to do.
Step 4: final step, which is creating the the Linux partitions.
I was able to free almost half of my total hdd space for Linux. Now to install Mandrake Linux Powerpack Edition 8.2, then successively upgrade to 9.0 and 9.1 (15 CDs, total).
I use Partition Commander and System Commander Personal Edition.
Now I have to save up for bigger hard disks. It will take less time to install Linux (all 3 versions), than it took to reorganize my hard disks.
Anyone else go through this sort of fun?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The fun part is resizing, moving, copying, and deleting partitions, without destroying their contents or order. This does take quite a while to do, and I have Windows partitions (drives) C - J.
Step 1: figuring out just how much space you can prune.
Step 2: deciding where you want the partitions.
Step 3: go through the process, which takes hours to do.
Step 4: final step, which is creating the the Linux partitions.
I was able to free almost half of my total hdd space for Linux. Now to install Mandrake Linux Powerpack Edition 8.2, then successively upgrade to 9.0 and 9.1 (15 CDs, total).
I use Partition Commander and System Commander Personal Edition.
Now I have to save up for bigger hard disks. It will take less time to install Linux (all 3 versions), than it took to reorganize my hard disks.
Anyone else go through this sort of fun?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif