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Partitioning question
I've created an empty partition following it and want to format it as UFS. I've booted up with the jaguar disc, and selected Disk Utility. Then when I attempt to partition the empty partition, a warning message pops up saying "Saving the new volumes will erase all existing volumes ..." . Hmm, I presume this means

partitioning question
I have (2) hard drives, on the first hard drive I plan on creating 3 partitions so I can have 3 OS's and the second hard drive I plan to use for data and backups. I currently have XP HE installed and plan to install 2 more OS's on my first hard drive. My question is when I partition my first hard drive should I

Partitioning question
If you destroy a partition, of course anything stored on it is gone. Partition Magic and other such third-party utilities can resize, divide, and combine existing partitions without losing data. Any questions I have not thought of ? (good advice is welcome) You didn't say, but since you're posting in a Win98

Specific partitioning question
Kent W. England [MVP] k...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp general People have a lot of trouble when they try to *clone* an XP partition. But, I've had so many people question whether it can be done using two XP installs, why I don't know.. But, to me it seems like it would save a lot of grief!!

Multi-boot partitioning question
Eric Edwards ese...@news9.exile.org comp sys sun admin On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:01:31 -0500, Brian Graham <bgra...@senco.com> wrote: We are having a debate here at the office about disk partitioning and I wanted to get some expert feedback from non-partisan people. The question: One partition or more?

partitioning question
messm...@free.fr sol lists freebsd questions Hey Alex, install lilo from Debian or Redhat so you can boot every OS ! See FreeBSD handbook for booting FreeBSD with Lilo. On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:09:28 +0200 Alex <akrui...@dds.nl> wrote: Hello/Beste Brian, Thursday, June 06, 2002, 9:57:43 PM, you wrote: HB> Hello- HB>

General partitioning question
... 02 April, 2000 12:35 Subject: Re: Multi-boot partitioning question C: > 512 Mb FAT16 Boot Files & Data Transfer could you explain a little more than this? Another FAT16 partition can be used for this purpose if desired. Yes, this partition would be a Primary DOS partition and marked as Active.

disk partition question
Dave Brown dhbr...@hobbes.dhbrown.net comp os linux setup In article <eQqC8.3650$Po6....@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>, DB Mays wrote: I have a question about "expert" partitioning. Probably there are a lot of other people that can benefit from knowing how to do this. When I want to install either SuSE or RedHat I

Partitioning Question
My way of handling this is, if possible, to point all setup programs to install on the application partition. The ones that does not accept this, mostly programs written by Microsoft, does end up in Program Files, so I try sizing the boot partition accordingly. Best regards Bjorn -- Bjorn Landemoo

Hyper-sphere partitioning question
I am wondering now what kind of advantage I have if I installed MDK9 with a single /home/ partition? I mean with the backup I might easily restore my specific settings, mails, news, etc.(?) after a fresh install without the need of a home partition. Please explain it to a newbie ;-) Ah, I should mention that I do

Partitioning question
"H> "H> With all the distros and their races to pump out whatever is not bleeding "H> edge (and even then that's not out of the question), plus the incredibly "H> fast and easy installs, it's not worth the time or effort to lay out several "H> partitions. With the exception of /home and /boot (if you suffer from

Another HD partitioning question
Peter Ashby pras...@MAPS.dundee.ac.uk uk comp sys mac In article <1fgvpdq. 1vmw9hp1cg8togN%jo...@mozartclara.co.uk>, jo...@mozartclara.co.uk (Joe B) wrote: Another question- partition names. I don't want to get confused and not be able to see at a glance what drive a partition is on, so I'd like to use names for

Partitioning Question
Ogden Johnson III oj3u...@yahoo.com alt sys pc-clone dell microsoft public windowsxp general Steve <k...@ut.inv> wrote: In response to the question about setting up additional partitions as primary, I received a message saying "You can only have one ACTIVE primary partition at a time. Since you're already booting to

HELP! Partitioning Question
With all the distros and their races to pump out whatever is not bleeding edge (and even then that's not out of the question), plus the incredibly fast and easy installs, it's not worth the time or effort to lay out several Nonsense nonsense nonsense. I suppose I don't have the time and effort to partition my

Partitioning Question
A little question about Oracle's partitioning system... We have to load on one table about 500000 rows each day, that is to say approximately 2 GB. We want also to perform a "rolling window" mechanism : we keep rows until they become 1 year old, and then we want to delete them. So, in the table, at any given time,

Partitioning question?
He recently asked (and answered) the following question: "Horizontal partitioning of a relation can improve performance in certain situations only if vertical partitioning is also used" This statement seems rather ambiguous. Are you suggesting: "Situations exist in which horizontal and vertical partitioning

Linux partitioning question
I have a question that I'm hoping I can get some help with. I'm currently running Windows 2000 Pro on a PIII/500 /256 system with two harddrives 40gig and 20gig the 40 gig is the master drive and where I plan to have Linux co exist with Win 2K if possible. I'm able and willing to just reformat the entire drive and

partitioning question?
Jerry McAllister jerr...@clunix.cl.msu.edu lucky freebsd questions I have a box with FreeBSD 4.6-Stable on it It has 1 40 gb hard drive in it, I no longer have a need for the windows XP Partition I would like to erase it, format it as FreeBSD, and mount it has /usr/home2 How would I go about doing this,

ME partitioning question
Tom Brinkman to...@troi.csw.net alt comp hardware t Partition Magic enjoys a better reputation than it's performance deserves. xwiz...@direct.ca (aSTRo) wrote regarding basic partitioning question: i'd like to ask about partitioning. i recently created a new Linux partition and Linux swapfile partition on my

Disk partitioning question
I divided it into 2 partitions, and after installing it i ended up with ac drive (as expected), and ad and e drive. but the d drive is the old drive that i had in my computer (which is set up as the slave drive), and the e drive is the other partition of the new drive. Here's my question: will i run into problems