Re: Need to clean up the hard disk

[Otto Haliburton <ottohaliburton attbi com>]

I suggest you use fdisk to examine your partitions rather than fstab. 
Do a fdisk and post that.  That will tell what your actual partitions
look like.  I don't think one OS will mess with other partitons.  It's
against the rules.  They will wipe out MBR and put their own(XP) but
they generally want delete/move other partitions unless they are told.


On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 14:05, Albert DE WINT wrote:
> Hi Mark and Otto,
> 
> First I'd like to thank both of you for the outstanding assistance on my
> "partition" experience!  It was an interesting exercice.
> 
> Now that lost I Mandrake, I don't feel like installing it again.
> Let it be... (John Lennon)
> 
> I had a hard time, reinstalling WinXP for my kids, today.
> I still have to take care about a new MBR to make RH9 boot.
> (I now use a floppy to boot.)
> 
> I noticed WinXP 'rearranged' the partition table.
> So, HD9 fails to install the swap partition hda4 while booting. 
> 
> [root dimension etc]# cat fstab
> LABEL=/        /              ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot    /boot          ext3    defaults        1 2
> none           /dev/pts       devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none           /proc          proc    defaults        0 0
> none           /dev/shm       tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda4      swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda7      swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom     udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1    /mnt/cdrom1    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0       /mnt/floppy    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> [root dimension etc]#
> 
> I suppose I can do without swap. 'top' says I don't use it.
> Besides, I have plenty of DRAM (512MB).
> 
> But I would like to 'clean up' that messy disk. Can this be done using
> some REDHAT tools? PartitionMagic has made me think twice before jumping
> into another adventure. I'd rather not use it again.
> 
> Albert