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Partitioning HD
Post 12406 by primal on Friday 28th of December 2001 10:37:44 PM
12-28-2001
Partitioning HD
I would like to install Redhat 7.2 on my Windows machine. I only have one hard drive and I dont want to lose Windows. Which method is best for partitioning the HD?
I tried it once with Partition Magic and I was installing Corel Linux First Edition and Corel wiped out my entire HD (not good when your project for school is on the machine and it's due the next day!
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Another time I used FIPS and it seemed to work, but I partitioned the hard drive too small for Redhat, but since it was an old (PI 133MHz) computer I just wiped the entire thing. XWindows did not work however, so I went back to Windows.
Anyhoo! I want to try again on a not so old computer (Celeron) but I dont want to lose the information on it like I did before.
Also if RedHat does not run on the computer, can I convert that HD space back so Windows can use it? (merge the 2 partitions back into 1)
thanks!
primal
I tried it once with Partition Magic and I was installing Corel Linux First Edition and Corel wiped out my entire HD (not good when your project for school is on the machine and it's due the next day!
)Another time I used FIPS and it seemed to work, but I partitioned the hard drive too small for Redhat, but since it was an old (PI 133MHz) computer I just wiped the entire thing. XWindows did not work however, so I went back to Windows.
Anyhoo! I want to try again on a not so old computer (Celeron) but I dont want to lose the information on it like I did before.
Also if RedHat does not run on the computer, can I convert that HD space back so Windows can use it? (merge the 2 partitions back into 1)
thanks!
primal
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HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4) NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave hdd. General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order the partitions are discovered, and only nonempty, nonextended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi- cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions on an IDE disk. For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS "primary" partition on the second one. They are typically created by: mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0 mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1 mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2 ... mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8 mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64 mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65 mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66 ... mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72 chown root:disk /dev/hd* FILES
/dev/hd* SEE ALSO
chown(1), mknod(1), sd(4), mount(8) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)