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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