I apologize to Roberta for the mistake. However, it seems to me if she
does want to use Disk Druid, she still can.... by the expedient of doing
an "upgrade" on the machine. That would allow her to partition any new
drives that she may have, or to repartition any unused partitions. She
doesn't, of course, have to actually INSTALL anything...
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Forrester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 3:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
Subject: Re: Disk Druid
A couple of small issues here:
1. The name on the original email is "Roberta" - possibly (probably) a
lady.
2. Unless things have changed recently (alway possible in the linux
world,
as we all know) Disk Druid is not available for post installation
use.
You pretty much have to fall back on either fdisk or cfdisk.
cfdisk is
a bit less arcane for the new user, fdisk just takes a bit of
familiar-
ization time.
Roberta, after you manage to partition the disk the way you desire,
you'll
still need to run "mke2fs" on each partition to get them ready for use.
best
rickf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> He may be trying to partition a new disk, or he may be trying to use
> unused space from an existing disk... for example, he may have had a
> multiple boot system, and be removing an unused OS, and wants to
> repartition that section from, for example, FAT to EXT2. A very valid
> use for Disk Druid, you see, that does not wipe out his existing
> installation of Linux.
> Also, turn off the HTML... a lot of folks filter out HTML using
> procmail, and in general, it's not nice to send it to folks that you
> aren't sure can read it in their mail program.
> Bill Ward
> -----Original Message----- From: Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 12:56
> PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Disk Druid
> Robert: using DiskDruid after you finished your installation will ruin
> your partitions, and erase your information. If you want to keep your
> actual information, you should look for a repartitioning tool such as
> PartitionMagic or FIPS.
> -Manuel. -----Mensaje original----- De: Roberta Nicolis
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Lunes, 07 de
> Febrero de 2000 10:33 a.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Disk
> Druid
> Hello, Is there anyone who knows how to use Disk Druid after the
> installation to create new partitions or to edit the existing ones
> thanks bye Roberta N.
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