On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:32:29PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > I've been running fedora core since fc3 in a dual boot with Windows XP. > I'm now running fc5 and using vmware player to run Windows XP. I must > say vmware works incredibly well on fc5. I don't boot to Windows XP very > often and with VMWarePlayer working so well, I'm ready to make better > use of the partition. > > My current partitions are: > /dev/hda1 * 1 3199 25695936 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 3200 3212 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 3213 9729 52347802+ 8e Linux LVM > > So can I just blow away the hda1 partition, create a new linux > partition, and add it to the lvm? Or will that hose the boot/grub > process? > > Suggestions? One concern. The reason (even aside from LVM) that /boot usually goes into its own partition (here, I expect, hda2) is that some BIOSs have problems accessing cylinders beyond a certain number. If your BIOS has that problem, and your hda2 is beyond its limit, you could have a problem. If you are currently booting both XP and Linux from grub, then you should be fine. If you boot to Windows' ntdetect.com, and use that to select between Linux and XP, you may have a problem. You could, of course, delete hda1, create a new hda1 that duplicates your present hda2, copy the contents of hda2 into it, and adjust grub.conf suitably. Reboot to test. Then delete the old hda2, create a new hda2 occupying the gap between hda1 and hda3, and add it to your existing logical volume group. parted and gparted are your friends. N.B: Back up the whole kazoo first! Also, you may wish to use ntfsprogs' ntfsclone to back up the NTFS partition before you toast it. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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