Stephen Liu wrote:>
>Kindly advise
>1) How to display the existing partition in full detail
>2) What command shall issue to "defragment" the hard disc on Linux
>3) What shall be the safe and easy way to re-partition a hard disc
er.. can't really defragment a hard disk in Linux, it isn't as messy
At 02:45 AM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Stephen Liu wrote:>
>
> >Kindly advise
> >1) How to display the existing partition in full detail
> >2) What command shall issue to "defragment" the hard disc on Linux
> >3) What shall be the safe and easy way to re-partition a hard disc
>
>er.. can't reall
any
more info??
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Laptop
8.0 broke X on my laptop worked gret on 7.1 I have a thinkpad A22M with an
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Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins.
Why is everyone so hot on rpms?
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Pico is actually a part of the Pine mail client, and there is no seperate Pico
package... although someone on the valhalla list said that Nano is a very good clone
of pico and it is alot smaller in size...
M:)
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"Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other
# *optional plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms?
Because rpms make life eas
Stephen Liu wrote:>
>The hard drive has 3 partitions with sufficient free space for resizing and
>adding new partitions. I will use CD-Writer to backup.
You have 3 partitions...
How big are these partitions and what are these partitions mounted on?
I guess partition /dev/hda1 is "/" and /dev/hd
Hi Stephen,
It looks like your having fun there;)
>At 09:52 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>You have 3 partitions...
>>How big are these partitions and what are these partitions mounted on?
>I will check it later because I am answering your posting on a Windows
>machine.
>
The same machine? i
I don't think Stephen has a spare disk. stephen?
Robert L. Cochran wrote:>
To me this is all pretty simple now that I've done it at least one time.
But it does take careful study and it costs some money.
I haven't tested this procedure on a source disk which contains both
Linux and Microso
Robert L. Cochran wrote:>
>That is why I said it costs some money. But the new drive is much less
>expensive than lost data. Also you get faster boot times if you replace
>with a 7200 rpm or better drive. 3400 or 5400 rpm drives are strictly
>for the birds...
Hehehe:)
xplain to people "install these
>packages" than dependencies and compilation. We will never convince the
>average Windows user to switch to Linux if they have to learn tarball
>compilation.
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From: "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Stephen Liu wrote:>
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.
WXP can't read Linux partitions...
>I heard 'parted' but never use it. I will le
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