VanLUG Email Archive
Geoff Smith <
> wrote:
> Here's my present dilemma: when I first installed Debian, I was told a
> 600MB partition is *more* than enough.
600Mb isn't even close... I have 6.4Gb, and it's cramed!! :)
> It seems that is no longer the
> case (although I'm really not sure why, I don't have frivolities like
> games n' stuff [yet] ) My HD is 2.1 Gigs, so my Win 95 partition is a hog
> that I'd like to shrink eventually to nothing. For now, I'd like to up my
> Linux partition to 1-1.2 gigs. How can I do this? (there was a similar
> question asked a couple weeks ago, but it involved wiping out the win95
> partition completely) since I'm a hardcore newbie, I would really
> appreciate not getting an answer like "just use fdisk." I know nothing
> about partitioning. I would also appreciate a solution with minimal
> typing.. due to a recent accident with a sharp kitchen knife, I only have
> the use of one typing hand.
If you are not very confident with UNIX/Linux, I should recomend you back up
anything you want to keep, and reinstall the machine... It's the simplest (although
not the best, in my opinion :).
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