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xyle_one:
When i installed mandrake 9.1 i just accepted the defaults for the partitions. can i go back and change that easily, without reinstalling? if not, i will just put an old harddrive in and move /var & /home to that. thanks

suselinux:
I had Mdrk on my computre some time ago.  If I remember right there MIGHT be a partitioning GUI in the Mandrake Contral Center.

But if that existed you would have tryed it already never mind.

Pantso:
Doesn't Mandrake come with Diskdrake at the Mandrake Control Center? It's a GUI partitioning tool. You should be able to redistribute space from there easily enough. Otherwise, you'd have to use fdisk, which I wouldn't recommend if you don't have any experience.

Calum:
diskdrake exists in mandrake however i found it was unworkable to use while actually running the system. the best way to use diskdrake in my opinion is to boot from your install disk number 1, then humour it until the diskdrake screen, and do your partitioning, then write the partitions and abort the rest of the 'install'. This is a bit destructive though. i seem to remember MoR had some good tips for resizing of partitions et c but that was not using any GUI stuff.

edit: sorry, thought you wanted GUI only (mandrake's like that), did you look into using 'parted'? i don't know if it comes with mandrake, but i like it as a partitioning tool, from what little i have done with it, not sure if it does non-destructive resizing though.

[ May 08, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: hopelessly outnumbered ]

Master of Reality:
so you just want to enlarge a partition on your hard drive?
How big is the Hard drive/partition. And is there any space after the partition (if you have another partition on your drive and it is the next number (hda1 hda2, etc) then you might not be able to resize.).
Which partition is your root?
If you dont know much about hte hardrive, then post the results of doing "fdisk -l" on the command line (As root).

I can tell you how to do it via the command line (well... there is a command line graphicish thinger). It is relatively easy, but its not hard if you have directions.

[ May 08, 2003: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

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