Linux/SUSE noob trouble - Resize partition

[OmbooHankvald]

Originally Posted by ColdFury

Use the ntfsprogs package to resize your NTFS partition in Linux.

http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

Thanks ColdFury. I'll see if I can operate it...
BTW: IF I manage to succeed in resizing the NTFS how do I make the SUSE partition bigger? Maybe I should then just installed SUSE all over again (and thus use the extra free space?)

[ColdFury]

how do I make the SUSE partition bigger

You can use fdisk (the linux one) to resize the partition and then use whatever appropriate tool for the filesystem to recompute the filesystem data-structures.

I did a similar thing to install linux on my laptop without removing the existing windows installation.

[Peter Nelson]

Glad your windose is booting again, probably it will be fine now the checkdisk completed. This was probably your mistake of not doing the windows reboot and load BEFORE putting the suse disk in. All's well that ends well.

You can do the resize using 3rd party tools as suggested above OR

Suse 10 fresh installation is pretty good at resizing and probably simpler to use.

When it suggests settings for partitioning click on that and modify it as you wish.

If you did want to add/remove packages from the command prompt interface, type yast2 in console, and the interface looks very like the yast gui version.

You can always re-load anything you remove but want to use later.

Also you probably won't accidentally remove something necessary as yast checks dependancies to know what relies on what and will ask for confirmation or tell what it also needs for selected apps to run.

Have fun!

[OmbooHankvald]

Okay, after I accidentally installed SUSE on top of another SUSE ( ) I have been formatting back and forth, however now I've currently got:

1 x 25.2 GB Windows partition ( ~ 5 GB free space)
1 x 4.1 GB unknown partition (called 'IBM_SERVICE') which came with the computer. Apparently it's a 'Vendor diag' partition... What is that?
1 x 5.3 GB extended Linux partition whereof 792.2 MB is swap.

I know Windows still has the upper hand, but I'll first have to get to know Linux before I choose what to do next.

Thank you all for your help in sorting out this mess!

A last question: Do any of you know of a site/book/something where I can get some basic easy-to-understand knowledge of what Linux/SUSE is and how to operate it? I'm 100% Windowsian but I am interested in getting to know more about Linux.

[garo]

Ah you did not tell us that you have an IBM laptop. That complicates things considerably as IBM uses its own hidden partition for all sorts of stuff. This makes multi-boot a bit more complicated and explains why you got a blank screen first time round. Do a search for "dual boot IBM laptop" on google for good pointers.

[OmbooHankvald]

Originally Posted by garo

Ah you did not tell us that you have an IBM laptop. That complicates things considerably as IBM uses its own hidden partition for all sorts of stuff. This makes multi-boot a bit more complicated and explains why you got a blank screen first time round. Do a search for "dual boot IBM laptop" on google for good pointers.

Oops... I forgot n00b rule §3: "Always give ALL information. Even if you believe it's useless". In my case >I simply forgot all about what laptop I was using

[garo]

Did you do the search and get all the answers then?

[Peter Nelson]

Originally Posted by OmbooHankvald

Oops... I forgot n00b rule §3: "Always give ALL information. Even if you believe it's useless". In my case >I simply forgot all about what laptop I was using

ALSO a *WARNING* as you have an IBM laptop.

There is an optional feature in linux called sensors.

On most machines this can be set to talk to motherboard chips and report temperature and fan speeds.

HOWEVER ON IBM LAPTOPS , sensors has been known to totally lock up the IBM laptop (for good , or at least a factory return). Not good.

There is a little code in sensors to try to prevent it being run on Ibm laptop, but don't rely on this.

*NEVER TRY TO SET UP SENSORS/FAN/TEMP MONITORING ON AN IBM LAPTOP*

You have been warned ;-)

[OmbooHankvald]

Originally Posted by garo

Did you do the search and get all the answers then?

Yes, and I found out some info about IBM_SERVICE. I'm actually thinking about maybe deleting it using this as my reference.
If I'll backup all the stuff listed there I should be able to get rid of it.

However, I'll be careful not to destroy something unnecessarily