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09-22-2005

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If your hard disk is a fresh one without file system been shown to it that is if u are formatting and installing for the first time
then u can use partition magic software.
But it seems that u had already windows xp in ur 80 GB hard disk but want to have Linux additionally.

If u want to additionally install Linux with existing XP
then check out for these
is your 80GB HDD under FAT32 file system
then
format a portion of your HDD and leave the portion as unallocated partition
note if the partition in ur HDD is of NTFS, that partition cannot be split
u need to complete format and have FAT32 as unallocated partition

If u want to install XP and Linux
and if it is a fresh install of ur HDD then
have a portion as unallocated and remaining as windows native partition FAT32 .

there is no need to re-install windows when u r installing linux
unless by mistake if u partition ur primary drive or ur entire partition FS is of type NTFS for existing XP

Start inserting ur Linux CD, and procced to install in the unallocated partition, which can then be selected as Linux native partition of EXT3

There is nothing to cause u headache if u r failing and restarting somewhere but dont forget if your HDD 's bad sectors are increasing u need to have a check on theprocess.
Untill then u can proceed happily.

Please let me know if u have anyother questions, or queries or if u r stuck up some where.

All the best.

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findfs

FINDFS(8)						       System Administration							 FINDFS(8)

NAME

       findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID

SYNOPSIS

       findfs NAME=value

DESCRIPTION

       findfs  will  search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags
       are:

       LABEL=<label>
	      Specifies filesystem label.

       UUID=<uuid>
	      Specifies filesystem UUID.

       PARTUUID=<uuid>
	      Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID  Partition	Table (GPT) partition tables.

       PARTLABEL=<label>
	      Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for GUID Partition Table  (GPT)	or  MAC  partition
	      tables.

       If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout.

       The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by

	      lsblk --fs

	      partx --show <disk>

	      blkid

EXIT STATUS

	      0      success
	      1      label or uuid cannot be found
	      2      usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option

AUTHOR

       findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.

ENVIRONMENT

       LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
	      enables libblkid debug output.

SEE ALSO

       blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The  findfs  command  is  part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
       /util-linux/>.

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