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  • Subject: Re: [BL] repartitioning for linux?
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:36:20 +1200

Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Can I format the entire 1G drive as one ext2 partition, and
> then later, with say 300 M of linux files on the drive, can
> I split it into two 500M partitions without messing up linux?

No.

> If I remove files from linux and then put more files on, do
> they go into the contiguous free space at the end of the
> partition

I think that is what ext2 does.

> or do they fill in the holes left by removing files?

I don't think the holes remain. Because ext2 uses inodes,
it can move things around when needed.

> How have other basiclinux users ended up partitioning their
> drives

1: DOS
2: small Linux for experiments
3: main Linux
4: storage (eg backup of main Linux)

Cheers,
Steven







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