Whil Hentzen wrote: > First, let me get this off my chest. I'm having a bad day. Nothing I've > tried today has worked - at all - and it's only noon. Lots more can go > wrong. And to top that, my hound dog died and my baby left me and I lost > my pickup truck by some dad-gum ringer in a poker game. > > Anyway, back to our story. > > I've got FC6 running smooth as silk on a TP T30. 60 GB drive. Love it. > For reasons best left unsaid until after a beer or seven. I'm going to > install XP and make this a dual boot. > > My machine has the default FC6 partitioning scheme with LVM, except that > I split / (55GB) into / (25GB) and /home (30GB) partitions (in the LVM). > > My plan is to free up space on the /home partition, using 10 GB of home > for XP. > > I've been goofing around with the Administration | LVM applet to try to > resize /home but two issues have risen: > > 1. I can't figure out how to do it (LVM says I need to unmount /home and > it can't do that since /home is in use). > Change to the single user mode. As root, run "telinit 1". It is preferable to do this from the CLI. You can then unmount /home. > 2. I'm a-feered that /home being in a LV means that if I resize it, I'll > have free space in a logical partition - and that XP won't/can't be > installed in that logical free space. > > So.... suggestions? > > Whil Hentzen > Milwaukee > I don't know enough about LVM to help you with #2. If it were just a logical partition, I would use gparted, but I don't know how it would handle a LV... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
