On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400, Leigh Stewart wrote: > I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used > resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the > device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat > unnerving experience because in order to resize using cfdisk u have to > delete then recreate the partition, which wasn't clearly documented > anywhere... Anyway, now Ive got a problem because my disk at the moment > has 3 primary partitions, 1 boot part., 1 swap part, and one root part. > for gentoo. > > the problem is i cant create a new primary partition which i need to do > if i want to install windows beside gentoo, which i also need to do. > You can have 4 primary partitions. That is not a problem. Unless the last partition begins after the 1024 cylinder boundary. In which case M$ will not be happy.
> does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and swap > partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside a single > primary partition? has anyone attempted this? it occurs to me that that > would be the simplest solution... > Setting up an extended partition scheme would work fine. However, using cfdisk, you cannot make the conversion without losing data. Because of reiser, even a program like Partition Magic (the best for this sort of manipulation) can't work. Given your current setup, here's what I would do. Move swap to the last partition, Linux to 3, M$ to 2, and leave boot. If you use grub, you can program it to boot M$ easily. > anyone have any other ideas? > > Yes. Backup. Then Backup. Then Backup again! -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
