Make a FAT 32 partition of 3 or 4 GB for transfer of files between Linux and Windows. It will make your life much easier, believe me. I wish I had, but I don't know how to do it with a fully formatted drive. --doug On Saturday 10 July 2004 04:16, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
I need to repartition my hard disk, but need input on how to do it and what the different partitions are called in the disk tool in YaST (I still get a little confused about primary, extended and logical partitions). Also I would appreciate comments and suggestions, since this partition and installations needs to run fo a few fears.
It is a 160 GB and I need it for a dual boot machine (Linux and WinXP for a 40 GB iPod). I have something like this in mind:
"Primary partition":
WinXP NTFS 60 GB
"Extended partition" (with the following "logical partitions"):
/boot ext3 50 MB /swap swap 512 MB / ext3 10 GB /home ext3 50 GB
Is that OK? Do I use primary and extended in the right way – and what about the order of the partitions? Any othe comments?
I am considering dividing the Win-partition into two partitions – one for the OS and one for data (maybe in FAT32 format). How would such a partition table look like (would that demand one more primary partition)? Will I have to create the two Win partitions from YaST or from Windows?
Janus
-- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.