I am starting to play with Linux again and would love to take the LPIC 1 tests at some point. I have installed on old Red Hat 9 distro I have. I have not partitioned the whole drive with disk druid when the system started up. Since I want to learn more command line info I want to partition the rest of the drive then format it. What command line programs (hopefully universal) would I use to do this? How would I start Disk Druid if I wanted to play with it again?

I was also wondering if it is possible to have a dual boot with RH and Lindows? Will they try and use the same partitions like the swap partition? I am just curious about Lindows and I know it is not "mainstream" Linux but I have some friends that like it and wanted to see what it is about.

Thanks,

Zych

Hi Zych!

To partition your disk, use fdisk (possibly needs to be invoked as /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda ). It's pretty straightforward.

Then it depends what you want to do with your new partitions. To format them with ext3, for example use mkfs.ext3

Have never tried Lindows, so I have no comments on that.

Martin

For partitioning, you could use fdisk, is in everey distro (that I know at least), but be carefull while using it. Other distros came with their own tools, that make this partitioning work easy. To start disk druid again I really thing you should run it from booting-CD, you shouldn't play with partitions that are mounted. Once you have your partitions don't forget to create the file system (I recommend reiserfs, but it's my personal opinion).

Dual boot issue is easy to solve, I have my disk with slack 10.0 in /dev/hda5, suse 9.1 /dev/hda7, and gentoo /dev/hda8, swap in /dev/hda6. They all share the swap partitiong (to do this you should put in /etc/fstab of every distro that your swap partition is /dev/hda6) For booting, I have copies of all the kernels, and system map at the /boot (my first distro was suse, and my compu boot from it /boot, so I copy all kernels imagen to it,) I use grub and for adding new entries just follow the sintaxis, it's really easy

Thanks. I actual found out most of this stuff while I was waiting but you all did fill in some info. I tried fdisk but then realized I was not logged in as root so it didn't work at that time. I decided to try and load Lindows after making the partition. I guess I could have used mkfs but figured that Lindows should work with just the partition. So far I started the install but it is not done yet so I will see how it goes.

Thanks for the responses,

- Zych