Apparently its all a big secret. The drives involved aren't boot, aren't system, and don't contain anything but data. All I want to do is remove the present partitions and setup an LVG. If I have to reinstall, thats stupid.
I've found reference to commandline stuff I could use, but I haven't turned up what they ARE. So help a poor n00b who sure as hell isn't reinstalling just to edit the damn partition table.
EDIT - so commandline stuff can't do LVM and disk druid wants to kill my boot part if do a commando reinstall. My system is on a pair of SCSI disks, and I'm messing with a pair of IDEs, but neh...
EDIT2 - I ran a reinstall without packages and leaving the system parts intact. Now I get access denied on all the RL5 boot actions. Great.
Change partitions on a linux system: possible?
Moderator: Thanas
Change partitions on a linux system: possible?
Depends on your filesystem type. If it's ReiserFS/Ext[23] then resizing partitions is possible. You'll need parted and fdisk, plus whatever tools are needed for configuring LVM.
Here is an LVM howto:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/upg ... tolvm.html
Erm, command line stuff can do LVM... I don't use Mandrake, can't help you w/ GUI tools (and haven't used LVM, since I just dump everything on one partition- my understanding is that you make your base partitions as small as possible, then create new partitions on the fly to expand them as needed- fiddled around with it while installing Debian, and figured it wasn't worth the performance overhead).
And what's RL5? A boot loader?
Here is an LVM howto:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/upg ... tolvm.html
Erm, command line stuff can do LVM... I don't use Mandrake, can't help you w/ GUI tools (and haven't used LVM, since I just dump everything on one partition- my understanding is that you make your base partitions as small as possible, then create new partitions on the fly to expand them as needed- fiddled around with it while installing Debian, and figured it wasn't worth the performance overhead).
And what's RL5? A boot loader?
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I broke boot somehow: it never gets past runlevel five, and doesn't boot. Bah. I decided commandline wouldn't work when parted had a very narrow choice of options. Why the fuck FC3 doesn't just have an easy way to change it I don't know.
So is there an easy way to fix a permissions problem on boot or should I just boot in rescue mode, grab my configurations and reinstall?
So is there an easy way to fix a permissions problem on boot or should I just boot in rescue mode, grab my configurations and reinstall?
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