partitions

[Robert Meyer]

Well, as a case in point, I once mounted a windows drive on Linux as fat32,
tarred off the whole drive, repartitioned it, formatted it for fat32 (in
Linux), untarred the files onto the new partition, reran LILO and booted
windows.  No problems found.  I did this in response to a windows setup wiping
all of the partitions and taking the whole drive on me once.

Should work fine...

Cheers!

Bob
--- Mark Robson <markrobson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have been having trouble with WinXP
> (Ex-productivity?), and wish I'd learned to segregate
> all those user-environment related files out before
> the @#$($#@
> driver-corruption/page-fault/IRQ_not_less_than/circus
> started last month.  Now I can't get past the
> rebooting during load, cannot reinstall XP, cannot get
> into safe mode.  I've made a real mess of it, and want
> to end the madness.  Irony:  I got into the mess
> because I was adding CDRW so I could BACKUP MY FILES! 
> DOH!
>  
> I have an idea to use Linux as my solution, and please
> advise how this might go;  I have a dual-boot
> setup, with RH8 linux installed onto a second hard
> drive.  I'm able to boot into RH8 and mount the xp
> partition.  (RH8 server, with Samba, although I'm
> totally an enduser, not admin.)  Can I sort out the
> important files (*.doc/xls/htm mostly) and put them
> aside in the penguin partition, then format the xp
> partition and install 98?  I can see 'how' to do this,
> but here's the point:
>  
> Does transferring these files from xp to linux and
> back to 98 cause any problems with the integrity of
> the files themselves?  As enduser, not admin, I'll use
> a more gui (Gnome)than command line approach.  Would
> not open or operate on the files beyond moving them.  
>  
> Original idea, which I can't make happen on the
> Win/Loser setup any more, was to move the XP partition
> up and create a new partition to install 98 onto.  Was
> going to do that after I got the drives backed up,
> never got that far.  I use PartitionMagic, and it
> would do this in win non-destructively.  Is there any
> comparable Linux partition program that is also
> non-destructive?  
>  
> Other details:
> About 2gb of user-environment related files to move.
> Three hard drives altogether:
> 80gb WD, partitioned into two 40gb windows.
> 8gb  Fujitsu, windows single partition
> 10gb Maxtor, Linux, RH8 server default partition
> scheme
> Celeron p3 400, 384mb, 16mb agp video.
> Broadband connection
> The machine is part of a home peer2peer network, but
> that is just to share the broadband and printers.  The
> other machines are 98's.
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> Mark
> 
> peter <pvant67 at wnyip.net> wrote:
> Sorry for the long absence, it's been strange/terrible
> at best here.
> 
> My comment about partitions: Anything I think will
> matter to me in the 
> long run gets a separate partition, esp. /home and
> /usr/local.
> 
> That's the only reason I've been able to keep
> essentially the same user 
> environment for so many years (1999-2000) to present.
> Back then, I did 
> things on a Compaq 486. Now, it is 2 or 3 hardware
> systems later, but 
> /home hasn't changed much. The contents are similar
> but the capabilities 
> are greater.
> 
> The way I do things, the rest of the system is
> disposable. You already 
> know there's going to be upgrades, betas, etc. /home
> isn't disposable - 
> its the stuff you spent the last few years creating.
> Hence, I never use 
> the default partition schemes (I use RH9), and I
> default to a custom 
> install in order to preserve this.
> 
> Hence, I would definitely give /home its own
> partition; you can safely 
> wipe and re-install the system without touching it, if
> you opt to 
> partition it manually.
> 
> Hope this helps someone - Pete
> 
> -- 
> "Truly, if Te is strong in one, all one needs to do is
> sit on one's ass, 
> and the corpse of one's enemy shall be carried past
> shortly."
> -- spotted somewhere on Usenet
> 
> 
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