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Format C:! by caffine-iv2006-11-19 12:55:59
  Explaination: by caffine-iv 2002-12-27 04:21:17
About six months to a year ago (somewhere inbetween) I was asked to setup a machine to dualboot Linux and Windows.

The machine had a single SCSI harddrive of 18.2GB size.

It was partitioned as follows:

sda1: (NTFS) 8.2GB
sda2: (swap) 512MB
sda3: (ext2) The Rest

When windows installed, it read the drive label as G: for some reason.

Today, I installed another 18.2GB drive, installed Linux on it, and got rid of the sda2 and sda3 partitions and replaced them with a single sda2 partition that consumed all the space.

Now the partitions are as follows:

sda1: (NTFS) 8.2GB G:
sda2: (NTFS) The Rest C:
sdb1: (swap) 1GB
sdb2: (ext3) 512MB
sdb3: (ext3) The Rest

Very neat. I had to take screenshots while formatting drive C: for use with Windows XP :)
[ Reply ]
    Silly question by ideur2002-12-27 04:57:07
      ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2. by caffine-iv2002-12-27 05:00:39
        Sorry no problems here by ideur2002-12-27 05:26:19
          I'm using Slack8.1 as well, by caffine-iv2002-12-27 05:31:07
            Have either of you tried by myke2002-12-27 12:24:11

 

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