[GRLUG] Resizing partitions

[Michael Mol]

hold up

You can still save your data.

Make a backup of your /home, where your WINE configs and apps are.
You'll be able to restore them when you reinstall.

(That's why I keep my /home on an external drive, actually.)


On 3/26/07, Justin Popa <tehpopa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, forgot about that. Well in about 25 minutes I'm wiping the slate
> clean and starting over. I just feel awful about it because I just got my
> top 10 windows apps running under wine.
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>  On 3/26/07, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh, and I think the grlug mailing list changes the mime type of emails
> > from HTML to plaintext.  Remember, our conversation is bounced off of
> > grlug's server.  Lots of folks can't stand HTML emails.
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> > On 3/26/07, Justin Popa < tehpopa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That is extremely interesting given we're both gmail-gmail... but here
> is my
> > > response again:
> > >
> > > Yeah, I've fixed that. Borrowed an unused NAS device from work and
> scooped
> > > it all off. I'm now faced with my PC's 200gig boot drive. 160Gb was for
> > > windows because I never thought I'd actually full out switch. 1Gb for
> swap,
> > > and 28Gb for my linux install. And that's the way they are partitioned
> on
> > > this disk. My goal is to absolutely blow away the 160 and the swap. Then
> at
> > > the beginning of the disk add a 1Gb swap, and stretch the 28Gb partition
> > > through the newly created void. I've done this before with windows using
> > > Partition Magic, and all went well. But I know when I do this my swap
> will
> > > become(guessing) hde1, then the rest hde2, causing the need to redo
> > > /etc/fstab after the repartition via a live disk. I think. I could just
> be
> > > making all this up :p
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