Re: Upgrading to 7.1, need help with partitioning

[Allen Ziegenfus <aziegenfus mindspring com>]

Huh. Is this with an upgrade or a regular installation? I was trying
to avoid the regular installation so I could preserve my existing files.
I didn't see anything about disk druid when I went through the upgrade 
screens. 

Can disk druid expand the boot partition and 
shrink the regular partition while keeping all the files intact? The 
manpages on fdisk, ext2resize, etc. seem to say there is no way to shrink 
a partition.

Another problem I had is that the GUI install futzes up my monitor (can't 
see anything), so I had to go with the text install. Is the Disk Druid 
only available in the GUI install? If so, is there any way I can specify 
my own XF86Config file for the installation so I can actually
see what's going on?

Or can I fool the install by deleting the existing files in the boot 
partition? Maybe it doesn't take into account that 
it will be overwriting them when it figures out how much space it needs. 

Allen

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, "Thursday" AKA dr. john wrote:
> When I put my RH 7.1 in, up came a partitioning wizard, the Disk Druid. 
> I guess it's a partner of Kandalf the Dragon.  It offered me a standard
> partition install, and then redid the partitions I had set up with the
> jumpstart disk.  You need to go with the recommendations on partition
> size ... the worst that will happen is you'll have to do the
> installation over.