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Tricky Partition Issues
Hi everyone
I have a system that dual boots with Gentoo. This is my current fdisk partition table: device____start__end___system /dev/sda1_1_____5_____Linux /dev/sda2_6_____515___Linus Swap /dev/sda3_516___5614__Linux /dev/sda4_5615__13262_FreeBSD Now my tricky question is: I have already partition 4 primary partitions on my harddisk. I still have 400 GB or empty unpartitioned sp ace left. How can I partition that into ext2? I have tried using sysinstall but somehow sysinstall cannot perform the operation that I wanted. (Check the post below) How do I add an extended partition without deleting anything? |
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There is not gparted in FreeBSD
What would you recommend then? |
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The gparted LiveCD perhaps? Or the Ultimate Boot CD? Any KDE LiveCD? Pretty much any Ubuntu or OpenSuSE LiveCD? A google search for free partitioning tools? Backup all files to another disk/CD/DVD/whatever, and re-install with a better partitioning scheme?
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So do I delete my Linux swap partition first, then create an extended partition for the remaining 400 gb of space and then recreate a linux swap partition? Will the labelling of my partitions be the same? Will this cause my gentoo to be unable to mount to the new swap partition?
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The simple method:
Your partitions will be renamed/renumbered, so you will have to edit your /etc/fstab in both Linux and FreeBSD. In Linux, it will show as:
In FreeBSD, it will be something like:
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Hi
Since the fdisk "tutorial" provided in the handbook is really useless, it would be very helpful if you could actually guide me through this proccess. 1) How exactly do you delete a partition using fdisk? 2) How do you create a new partition and change it to logical or extended? |
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