Hi Muhammad, Thanks for your detail advice. At 09:52 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: >You have 3 partitions... >How big are these partitions and what are these partitions mounted on? >I guess partition /dev/hda1 is "/" and /dev/hda2 is the physical which >holds the >logical /dev/hda3 swap partition. In which case you may as well re-install, >or use some backup software or ghosting utility. 1) I will check it later because I am answering your posting on a Windows machine. The hard drive is 40G in size which was running RH7.3 only, now upgraded to RH8.0 It was not installed by me previously. There is plenty of free space there. Now my job is to resize existing partitions getting more free space and add new partitions for users. I have Norton Ghost and I am in doubt whether it runs on Linux. I also have Instant Recovery which runs on CDRom, backup OS drive without starting it and write directly on CD-Writer. I have used the Windows version of the later on Windows environment but never use the Linux version on Linux. On Windows It can backup partitions and restore them selectively. >Is there a real special setup you have on this machine that you choose not >to re-install, if not i'd go for the re-install option. By far the most >stress free, and just back-up your user data and any special config files >that may aid a speedy re-configuration of your newly re-installed system. 2) Yes, there are some special setup and special applications running on RH8.0 >You are backing up on to CD, unfortunately there is no magic command to >restore the backup data, unless you were using some special backup software >or ghost utility in which case you could have this magic command. 3) Please refer to my reply in point 1) above. >I have had similar problems over the last few months i solved them by >getting an >80GB hard drive. My desktop machine which now has two HDs a 20GB Primary >Master with 5 partitions. /dev/hda1 is a Windoze XP partition, /dev/hda2 >is a >RH8 partition, and /dev/hda3 is a SlackWare 8.1 partition, /dev/hda4 is >physical >partition which holds /dev/hda5 my logical swap partition, which is used >by both >Slack and RH. All my user data, music, movies, and software are held on my >Primary >Slave which also has quite a few partitions but one in particular that is >just used >in case I need to backup a partition to re-install one of the OS's or >something. That is what I do on Windows machine, slave drive or a partition "Drive D". But I stop allowing 2 OSs sharing a hard drive after an accident, partition table collapse. It took me very long time and paintsticking effort to get the drive and all data back. I could not resolve if I have all users partitions on slave drive how can Linux finds the respective folder for him automatically when a user starts Linux and login. Any special links have to be created >My drive cost me about £75 GBP, and believe me it is much less of a >headache to >re-install and mess with my system now. Yes, that is true. But in this case it is a dual OS PC, RH8.0 and WinXP with their own hard drive mounted on mobile rack. I don't know what will happen if a RH8.0 Slave is attached to WinXP, secondly how to make use of the free space in Primary drive Thanks Stephen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
