Hello!
Having trouble upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 ('EBDA too big' error, upgrade process taking literally hours before crashing at 40%, etc ...), I checked under Win XP with Partition Magic and the 5Gb ext2 partition is full ...
My HDD partioning is as follows:
/dev/hda 27.9 Gb 0 3467 /dev/hda1 13.6 Gb NTFS 797 2581 C: /dev/hda2 8.1 Gb Extended 2582 3647 /dev/hda3 4.9 Gb Linux native 0 637 / /dev/hda4 1.2 Gb Linux swap 638 796 swap /dev/hda5 8.1 Gb NTFS 2582 3647 D:
I can do with 11Gb in C: and 5Gb in D: , giving an extra 5.7 Gb to add to the Linux native partition. Partition magic can free space from C: and D: , creating another partition after D: , but it can only merge it with a NTFS or FAT32 partition.
Question: How I can allocate the free space to the Linux partition? (keeping in mind I can boot under XP but not Linux)
TIA
Lao Toma
Hi Just an idea.. perhaps You could assing this "new" partition to /opt for example..? Jaska. On Monday 07 October 2002 11:01, Lao Toma wrote:
Hello!
Having trouble upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 ('EBDA too big' error, upgrade process taking literally hours before crashing at 40%, etc ...), I checked under Win XP with Partition Magic and the 5Gb ext2 partition is full ...
My HDD partioning is as follows:
/dev/hda 27.9 Gb 0 3467 /dev/hda1 13.6 Gb NTFS 797 2581 C: /dev/hda2 8.1 Gb Extended 2582 3647 /dev/hda3 4.9 Gb Linux native 0 637 / /dev/hda4 1.2 Gb Linux swap 638 796 swap /dev/hda5 8.1 Gb NTFS 2582 3647 D:
I can do with 11Gb in C: and 5Gb in D: , giving an extra 5.7 Gb to add to the Linux native partition. Partition magic can free space from C: and D: , creating another partition after D: , but it can only merge it with a NTFS or FAT32 partition.
Question: How I can allocate the free space to the Linux partition? (keeping in mind I can boot under XP but not Linux)
TIA
Lao Toma
Hi! Well, keeping in mind I cannot boot under Linux ... Thanks anyway! LaoToma On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 09:49 AM, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
Just an idea.. perhaps You could assing this "new" partition to /opt for example..?
Jaska.
On Monday 07 October 2002 11:01, Lao Toma wrote:
Hello!
Having trouble upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 ('EBDA too big' error, upgrade process taking literally hours before crashing at 40%, etc ...), I checked under Win XP with Partition Magic and the 5Gb ext2 partition is full ...
My HDD partioning is as follows:
/dev/hda 27.9 Gb 0 3467 /dev/hda1 13.6 Gb NTFS 797 2581 C: /dev/hda2 8.1 Gb Extended 2582 3647 /dev/hda3 4.9 Gb Linux native 0 637 / /dev/hda4 1.2 Gb Linux swap 638 796 swap /dev/hda5 8.1 Gb NTFS 2582 3647 D:
I can do with 11Gb in C: and 5Gb in D: , giving an extra 5.7 Gb to add to the Linux native partition. Partition magic can free space from C: and D: , creating another partition after D: , but it can only merge it with a NTFS or FAT32 partition.
Question: How I can allocate the free space to the Linux partition? (keeping in mind I can boot under XP but not Linux)
TIA
Lao Toma
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I personally prefer doing a fresh install. I keep my /home file system separate, and back up my configurations on it. I try to install the new release with the root file system in a spare partition, and when it seems to be running ok, I then make it my primary boot. Upgrading does require more space in the root (and /usr and /var) file systems during install. Since you have Partition Magic, you can shrink your NTFS partitions, extend your extended partition (/dev/hda2), then increase the size of the linux native partition. This is a rather complicated and time consuming process, but I have done this myself. If you only shrink C, then the extend the extended partition and resizing the linux native is not too bad. If you also shring the D: partition, then you add some time. On 7 Oct 2002 at 9:01, Lao Toma wrote:
Hello!
Having trouble upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 ('EBDA too big' error, upgrade process taking literally hours before crashing at 40%, etc ...), I checked under Win XP with Partition Magic and the 5Gb ext2 partition is full ...
My HDD partioning is as follows:
/dev/hda 27.9 Gb 0 3467 /dev/hda1 13.6 Gb NTFS 797 2581 C: /dev/hda2 8.1 Gb Extended 2582 3647 /dev/hda3 4.9 Gb Linux native 0 637 / /dev/hda4 1.2 Gb Linux swap 638 796 swap /dev/hda5 8.1 Gb NTFS 2582 3647 D:
I can do with 11Gb in C: and 5Gb in D: , giving an extra 5.7 Gb to add to the Linux native partition. Partition magic can free space from C: and D: , creating another partition after D: , but it can only merge it with a NTFS or FAT32 partition.
Question: How I can allocate the free space to the Linux partition? (keeping in mind I can boot under XP but not Linux)
TIA
Lao Toma
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Lao, Please excuse me for my insatiable (I almost typed "insane") curiosity: what do you need a 1.2 GB swap for? The "rule" for swap to be double of RAM applied in the days of RAM being 48 or 96 MB... [My first PC had a "spacious" 16 MB of RAM, which eventually I upgraded to 48 MB! And, of course, *no* HD at all!) But 1.2 GB? Even if you do a lot of video editing or CAD, it's still a lot of real estate! Just curious. -- Regards, gr (in /usually/ balmy, sunny Florida's Suncoast) [powered by SuSE-7.3 Linux 2.4.10]
I posed a query on the Boston Linux and Unix list. We've got a lot of very experienced Unix and Linux people. There was no concensus. Some always configure swap. But, it really depends on what the system is being used form. If you have a personal desktop system with a lot of ram, then you may not need swap at all, but if you want multiple desktops and like to leave a lot of things resident, then leave some swap so the system can free up some memory if it needs to. If you run a server, apache and sendmail can gobble up memory. And certainly if you are running some very memory hungry applications (CAD for instance), you might want a lot of swap, and possibly multiple swap partitions. On 7 Oct 2002 at 19:14, gilson redrick wrote:
Please excuse me for my insatiable (I almost typed "insane") curiosity: what do you need a 1.2 GB swap for? The "rule" for swap to be double of RAM applied in the days of RAM being 48 or 96 MB... [My first PC had a "spacious" 16 MB of RAM, which eventually I upgraded to 48 MB! And, of course, *no* HD at all!) But 1.2 GB? Even if you do a lot of video editing or CAD, it's still a lot of real estate!
Just curious.
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On Tuesday 08 October 2002 14.16, Jerry Feldman wrote:
If you run a server, apache and sendmail can gobble up memory.
On the other hand, if you run a server and it starts to swap, you've lost. Performance will drop through the floor. On a server where you expect performance, you really don't want to use swap at all. //Anders
This is also true, and goes toward proper management. But, you still want to allow stuff to run if need be. Again, it depends on the system. On 8 Oct 2002 at 14:17, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 14.16, Jerry Feldman wrote:
If you run a server, apache and sendmail can gobble up memory.
On the other hand, if you run a server and it starts to swap, you've lost. Performance will drop through the floor. On a server where you expect performance, you really don't want to use swap at all.
//Anders
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