[Sussex] partitions and the like ??

[John D.]

Well further to my previous, I couldn't suss out what was going wrong,
Sooooooooo, I thought I'd have a quick squint at how Partition Magic was
seeing things under windows.

Yup, it looked exactly the same! "Bugger" thinks me.

Then, in a blinding flash of inspiration (could be perspiration, as all
this is making me sweat :-P ), I knew that the backup that I'd managed
to make from Steve's instructions was sitting nicely in the / partition.

So I figured that I couldn't really make things much worse and deleted
the /home partition (with the PM8), and then made 2 new partitions about
the size I wanted, formatting the first as linux ext2 and the second as
FAT32, labeling it somewhat originally fat32!

I then booted back into the gentoo, the boot complained a little as it
was expecting a /dev/hda6 /home formatted as reiserfs, but I ^D'd it to
carry on with the boot, did cfdisk and then did mkfs -t
reiserfs /dev/hda6, then just to check, I did cfdisk again and it now
all looks like this



    hda1        Boot        Primary   NTFS             [^B]
21056.72
    hda2                    Primary   Linux ext3
1052.84
    hda3                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris
1579.26
    hda5                    Logical   Linux ReiserFS
20974.47
    hda6                    Logical   Linux ReiserFS
44161.53
    hda7                    Logical   W95 FAT32
31173.82

Bloody marvellous. I'm feeling slightly smug on spotting the way to
cheat to get that bit done (though rather undeservedly I suspect!).

So, what I need to do now is work out how to get the system to see the
new /dev/hda7, what the fstab entry should look like, so it will mount
at boot, I can read/write to it as root and user?

I'm gonna carry on looking but could someone point me in the right
direction please?

regards

John D.



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