RE: Hard disc re-partition question

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Muhammad,

At 12:24 AM 10/15/2002 -0400, Muhammad Akhtar wrote:

The same machine? if so, you'll be able to see the partitions and drives
but just won't be able to read from them.

Yes, 2 hard disks but not using the PC at same time. They are mounted on removable rack.

I can make WinXP disk as Slave and mount both of them in the same PC. When I start Linux and mount the Slave drive, Linux can see WinXP and use the latter's files and data but not vice versa.

You might want to take a look at 'parted' it allows you to create, destroy,
resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. I've never used it but if
Redhat decided to release it with psyche then i'd have confidence in using
it next time i need to mess with my partitions. (If you use it let me know
what it's like:)

I heard 'parted' but never use it. I will let you know my test result when available

Norton ghost as far as i know does support ext2 and ext3 partitions, though it
doesn't run on linux but as i say if you can see the disk/partitions from XP
you could selectively back up partitions and restore from those backups if needed.
And it'll back it up to cd-writer too, as you already know.

Noted

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When a user logs in they will be dumped straight into their home DIRECTORY
you specified when you created the user wherever that may be slave or primary.

Yes, that is correct. My question is "how about the existing users and their folders", how to move them to Slave drive. Is it by drag and drop on Konqueror?

Nothing will 'happen' windoze just won't be able to read from it. If you want
to make use of the space on the primary drive by both OS's you would probably be
better off formatting the free space as fat32 so both XP and linux can read and
write to these partitions cos there is little knowledge on ntfs in the linux
world Linux can see and read from NTFS but can't write to it (and that's only
if it's been compiled into the kernel, it wasn't on 7.3, dunno about 8.0, i'll
try it later and get back to you. Micro$haft aren't too keen to give too much
info away on it.

Once you formatted it in whatever filesystem, enter it into /etc/fstab so it mounts
at boot time.

Noted with thanks

B.Regards
Stephen