I would like to install Red Hat 9 on my PC, to dual-boot with Windows XP.
The hard drive has about 40GB of free space for the Red Hat installation, but I need to partition that space for Linux (ext2 format, I believe).
Partition Magic can shrink the current Windows partition and then create the Linux partition. I was hoping that Disk Druid would do this, because it comes with RH9, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't.
I'd prefer not buying Partition Magic and/or another hard drive. Is there a version of Disk Druid, or some other Open Source program that can shrink partitions?
karmaman posted this at 16:49 — 13th February 2005.
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Hi I just use a version of fdisk from an old boot disk it works fine,you can download a copy from http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/
hope this helps.
Please dont think i'm stooopid
Greg K posted this at 06:15 — 14th February 2005.
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I did a search on google for "free partition resize" and this is one of the sites that came up:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml
seems to have links to some free programs that can resize your partitions.
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mairving posted this at 16:07 — 14th February 2005.
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Well I wouldn't go with RH9 as it is basically dead. You will need to go to Fedora or Mandrake or one of the others. Disk druid should be able to resize your partition for you. It seems like from past experience it kind of does it for you automatically. You can't really use Fdisk. It will create the partitions but will will also destroy the old one, i.e. as in lose all of your data. Partition Magic is a great tool but I think that it is dated. Ranish is probably the next best free one. What I would probably do is see if you can either find another small hard drive or buy one. A 40GB 7200 RPM HD costs under $50 which is probably cheaper and safer than buying PM.
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rtroxel posted this at 12:41 — 20th February 2005.
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I bought one of these from Newegg. I also puchased Acronis Disk Director to partition it, and some other drives I have.
Then I bought the Red Hat Fedora Bible which contained 4 Fedora 2 CDs. So far, it works OK, except for the dual boot. When I get some time, I'll figure that out, too. Disk Director has a way of setting it up.
ridcully posted this at 13:18 — 26th February 2005.
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Be careful with partitioning. It was like playing with matches in my case... Two days to get back to the previous state - because of broken partition program.
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