Re: re-partition my hard disk
rocky wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> On my PC I have 2 hard disks. The primary one has Windows XP
> installed. Afterwards, I decide to learn Linux. So I got another Hard
> disk and installed Debian stable successfully on it. Now, I'm thinking
> of make my PC serve as the file back up server for my home office. I
> will install backuppc in my debian stable. Till now my secondary hard
> disk is not partitioned at all. I'm thinking of partition the hard
> disk so I can allocate a separate portion solely for backuppc. Can any
> of you give me some hints on how to accomplish this please? Does the
> partition have the risk of wipping my debian stable system out? How
> can I prevent this please?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Rocky
>
>
>
It's actually a lot easier than you'd think. All you need is the gparted
LiveCD (Unless you're familiar with cfdisk, which is a pretty hard to
use terminal application), boot into the LiveCD and run /gksudo
gparted/. From the LiveCD you should make your Debian partition (Which
should be the primary and only partition next to swap) smaller, and with
the unallocated space you should create a FAT32 filesystem for data
storage (Since FAT32 can be written to from both Linux and Windows,
FAT32 is the best choice).
If you want to write to the partition from Debian you're going to have
to /apt-get install dosfstools/, which enables you to write to a FAT32
filesystem from within Debian.
There is little risk of your Debian install breaking, and if something
happens to your FAT32 partition it most likely *won't* affect your Ext
(Debian) partition.
Useful links:
http://gparted.sf.net/
Specifically: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning
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