[NCLUG] stumper...

[John Baughman]

Partition Magic is good for resizing your Windows partition, but for 
creating Ext2 partitions should be left to the REAL Ext2 tools. I tried PM 
once for that task and got NUMEROUS errors from RedHat 6.2 installer. Only 
made that mistake once... fortunately it was a small one. Even Caldera only 
uses it to move your Windows partition and create a boot manager install for 
Windows. Must say something about Windows products and how they handle Linux 
stuff... I have only found a few products that deal with Ext2 on a read only 
basis that I like. At least I can "extract" from that partition to my 
Windows partition from within Windows. I DON'T want Windows writing to my 
Ext2 partition... EVER! If no one can create a good DOS or Windows 
partitioning tool that will safely create an Ext2 disk, why would I want 
someone writing to it while I am in Windows?

Good catch, Jeff!

-John Baughman

>From: "Jeff" <fetushead at home.com>
>Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
>To: <nclug at nclug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NCLUG] stumper...
>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:12:48 -0600
>
>Here's an idea. . .don't use partition magic.  Seriously, back up your data
>and do a re-partition using Windows' partitioning utility, and then install
>Linux (if you want to do a dual boot) using disk druid (unless you're
>familiar with the linux version of fdisk).  You'll end up re-allocating a
>lot of the space Windows used.  I hope I'm not the only one with very 
>little
>faith in partitioning programs such as partition magic.
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Jeff
>
>"Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta."
>         --The Ghetto Boys
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Luke Light" <llight at oneimage.com>
>To: <nclug at nclug.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:26 PM
>Subject: [NCLUG] stumper...
>
>
> > im trying to repartition an ntfs drive so i can install redhat 7.1 but 
>its
> > not letting me. partition magic 6 always gets stuck on this error "user
> > files error" and not letting me do anything. i ran chkdsk (win2k) and am
> > running norton but im not getting anywhere. i really really want to keep
> > the stuff on the hardrive. any ideas?
> >
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