Hi all, myself, having used suse at home since 8.0, my youngest boy has been using windows prob since he was able to walk, he is 12 now. Finally convinced him to make the switch to 10.0, after I showed him how well WOW & D2 run in cedega. (primarily the only reason I was keeping xp around) Wiped his HD a couple months ago, and installed 10.0, he loves it. Now that I have his system the way he wants it, I want to get rid of the 29 gig windows partition /dev/hda1/ , and devote all the space all to linux. (80 gb) minus swap Have any of you had a similiar situation? Ive used the partitioner before, but only during setup, never after the system is up and running. If i highlight hda1 under partitioner, i can choose the format option for this partition for reiser, is this the way I want to go? this is the partition i would like to move his music folder to (20gb) thanks for any help. Peace Steve Reilly __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 07:10 -0800, Steve Reilly wrote:
Hi all,
myself, having used suse at home since 8.0, my youngest boy has been using windows prob since he was able to walk, he is 12 now. Finally convinced him to make the switch to 10.0, after I showed him how well WOW & D2 run in cedega. (primarily the only reason I was keeping xp around) Wiped his HD a couple months ago, and installed 10.0, he loves it. Now that I have his system the way he wants it, I want to get rid of the 29 gig windows partition /dev/hda1/ , and devote all the space all to linux. (80 gb) minus swap Have any of you had a similiar situation? Ive used the partitioner before, but only during setup, never after the system is up and running. If i highlight hda1 under partitioner, i can choose the format option for this partition for reiser, is this the way I want to go? this is the partition i would like to move his music folder to (20gb) thanks for any help.
Why not just use mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.jfs or mkfs.xfs (your preference) to format the partition: mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 Then create a mount point for the partition i.e. mkdir /music Next create the entry in /etc/fstab: vi /etc/fstab and add /dev/hda1 /music xfs defaults 1 2 Adjust the xfs to the type of filesystem you created. The partition will be mounted at boot time with root as the owner so in order for him to save anything under /music you will need to chmod 777 /music. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Saturday 11 March 2006 16:24, Ken Schneider wrote:
Adjust the xfs to the type of filesystem you created. The partition will be mounted at boot time with root as the owner so in order for him to save anything under /music you will need to chmod 777 /music.
Overkill? If it's just one user who will use it, then chown user /music would be better. If several, System->File Manager->File Manager Super User Mode, right click on the directory and select Properties, go to the permissions tab and click on "Advanced Permissions", click "Add Entry", "Named User", select the user to add, and voila, that user will have permissions to do things From the command line, this would be done as setfacl -m u:username:rwx /music once for each user that should have permissions. Yet another option would be to give every user his or her own subdirectory -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabberID: anders@rydsbo.net
On Saturday 11 March 2006 16:10, Steve Reilly wrote:
If i highlight hda1 under partitioner, i can choose the format option for this partition for reiser, is this the way I want to go?
Yes, that's the right place to do it. On the lower right you also have a choice of mount points, which is the directory where your partition will be seen. So before you start the partitioner, create a directory somewhere (say for example /music) and then select that directory in the partitioner as the mount point. YaST will take care of the rest It will *not* take care of backups though, so be aware that once you click OK in the partitioner, everything you had on your windows partition will be gone. Make sure you've saved everything you want to keep someplace else -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabberID: anders@rydsbo.net
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