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Title: partioning
Post by: eleanor on May 08, 2005, 06:59:11 PM

hi there,

i just installed SME server,
and now i'm willing to try, to partion the harddisk.
i did serverall atempts, but all failed.

one of those was just simply typing cfdisk /dev/hda in the linux box.
but that gave me an error that it couldn't be reached.

can anyone help me, starting up fdisk?

thanks in advance,

Thijs

Title: partioning
Post by: yassa434 on May 08, 2005, 10:51:52 PM

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and now i'm willing to try, to partion the harddisk.

Are you trying to partion this primary HD? In which case I believe that SME takes over the whole disk. If your trying to add a second then you can use the fdisk command and then use n to create a new partion and p to make it a primary partion, then assign a partion number and press w to make the changes. Full details are given in the man page by typing man fdisk

Title: partioning
Post by: eleanor on May 09, 2005, 12:59:53 PM

Quote from: "yassa434"

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and now i'm willing to try, to partion the harddisk.

Are you trying to partion this primary HD? In which case I believe that SME takes over the whole disk. If your trying to add a second then you can use the fdisk command and then use n to create a new partion and p to make it a primary partion, then assign a partion number and press w to make the changes. Full details are given in the man page by typing man fdisk

no, not exactly,

i'm trying to split a partion, the '/' partition, which is around 40gigs.

but i dont'want to lose the SME files on it.

figured it partly out.
using RPM (partition resizer), create a boot diskette, and then split that partion.
install a boot mngr, and ready for the next OS to be installed

but i'm a complete noob, can't even find how to create a bootdiskette for RPM  :roll:

edit//
just tried to start RPM. it gave me an error, which keeps me stuck for now:

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overlapping partition found on 2 and 3.
SME created overlapping partitions, (and a rather strange cycle byte value: 1342 instead of the usual 1024kb)
how can i reset this, and get lost of the overlapping partitions.
if i need to format my hdd (again), i wouldn't care. haven't got anything special on it for now.