Re: partition question

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/27/2012 08:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition & now

Re: partition question

2012-05-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/2012 09:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 05/27/2012 12:45:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I went around that > tree a few months back, and as far as I could discover there is no > was to resize a partition. The parted documentation seemed to imply

Re: partition question

2012-05-27 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 08:45:45PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > > so as I understand it, my two viable options are a non-destructive > resize or a clean install & use Anaconda to create a blank partition for > use as the second OS (well, I do have a third: I have a brand new 60GB > USB HD that c

Re: partition question

2012-05-27 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 05/27/2012 12:45:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I > thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so > apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. > > I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which i

partition question

2012-05-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition & now I need to use some of the unuse

Re: Bios boot partition question

2011-11-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:44:11PM -0800, Bryce Hardy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > All excellent questions which I would have thought deserved at least > > a bit of text in the release notes rather than just firing a barrel > > full of acronyms at you :-). >

Re: Bios boot partition question

2011-11-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/14/2011 05:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 + > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary only >> for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this mean? How >> can >> I check whether my sy

Re: Bios boot partition question

2011-11-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 13 November 2011 19:24:19 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary > > only for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this > > mean? How can I check whether m

Re: Bios boot partition question

2011-11-13 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > All excellent questions which I would have thought deserved at least > a bit of text in the release notes rather than just firing a barrel > full of acronyms at you :-). Even worse, the official Installation Guide for F16 doesn't even mention

Re: Bios boot partition question

2011-11-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary only > for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this mean? How > can > I check whether my system is EFI or no, and whether the disk is using GPT

Bios boot partition question

2011-11-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Hi folks! :-) After a successful installation of F16 on my machine with (of course) custom partition layout, I decided to read the F16 release notes. ;-) And there I found this passage: Starting in Fedora 16, on non-EFI x86 (32 and 64 bit) systems, anaconda will default to creating GPT diskl