Re: What can I dump
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Dear Mr. Livingston:
> OK, I'm a bit low on space and can't dump DOS/WIN due to other users.
...
> /dev/hda6 103572 10280 93292 10% /e
> /dev/hda7 93512 68278 25234 73% /f
> /dev/hda8 128724 120528 8196 94% /g
>
> I'm also not prepared to shuffle drive letters to get that 100M from
> "E:\" out to the end of /dev/hda so I can re-partition it efs2.
You don't have to shuffle anything---you can plunk an ext2 partition down
right in the middle of things, and have it work. It sounds reasonable to
split your current E: drive into a 15-meg DOS partition (/dev/hda6, still) and
an 85-meg Linux partition (/dev/hda7). You'd have to tweak your fstab to
reflect /f <-> /dev/hda8 and /g <-> /dev/hda9, but DOS will ignore a partition
that it doesn't recognize, so your drive letters would be unchanged and you
get 85 Mbytes for Linux.
The downside is that you'd have to move the E: data elsewhere while doing
the splitting, and restore it later, but you've got 10M available on / (and
thus, presumably, in /home), so just:
o tar it up (maybe gzip, too?) onto an ext2 partition
o use [c]fdisk to do the deed
o mod fstab
o boot DOS and format the new, slimmer E:
o back to Linux to untar and mke2fs
I've had no trouble doing this sort of thing a time or two, but it depends on
there being no funky stuff on E:, such as copy-protected files or such.
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Sincerely yours,
Max Hyre
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--- Stan Kelly-Bootle, _Unix_Review_, May 1997, p. 83
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