Re: [vox-tech] Re-assigning Partitions

[Roland Minden <rminden@mail.MAPScom>]

This is a little off topic, but what is the liscensing for Partition Pagic.
I was cosidering getting a coppie for IF's, but I am afraid I would be
waisting my time if I can't use it on multiple pc's lagally. I have been
looking at shareware and freeware variations to Partition Magic, but there
doesn't seem to be an equal available.
Rusty

------Original Message------
From: Charles Ritchie <critchie@metavista.com>
To: vox-tech@franz.mother.com
Sent: November 3, 2000 5:24:58 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Re-assigning Partitions


I installed Star Office 5.2 from the Red Hat 7.0 install disks.  Most files
install into the /opt directory, although a small subset of files (around
1MB, I think) go into each user's home directory as they are set up to use
the product.

I'm not sure if someone mentioned this already, but you can use Partion
Magic to non-destructively move and/or resize your Linux partitions,
without requiring Windows on the system.  After I initially installed Red
Hat 7.0, I realized I didn't provide enough space in the /home directory.
Rather than re-install, I used Partion Magic 5.0 to move and resize the
partitions.  Partition Magic choked on the Linux swap partition, but since
it contains transient data I simply deleted the swap partition, made all
the other changes, and created a new swap partition.

Partition Magic normally runs under Windows, but the docs tell you how to
create boot disks that will run on a Linux-only box.  Once it's up and
running, using PM under Linux is almost exactly like running it under
Windows.

Chuck Ritchie

"Patrick B. Lickiss" wrote:

> Well, here's the issue.  When I first installed Linux on my system,
> I partitioned my 6.4 GB hard drive to contain:  /boot, /, and my swap
> file.  I then partitioned my 25GB hard drive to contain /usr (why I
> don't know just bear with me :) ).  My question is, as I install
> programs (VMware, Star Office, various utilities) am I going to wihs
> that I paritioned the 25GB elsewhere?  If so, how do I fix this short of
>
> re-formatting and re-installing?  Does anyone know if programs like Star
>
> Office and VMware install in the /usr directory?  or is it the /home
> directory?  Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick


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