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|    Bit Twister to Daniel47@teranews.com    |
|    Re: Installing new systems.....How best     |
|    03 Jul 12 13:23:56    |
      From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com              On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:01:21 +1000, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:       >       > As the two installed OS's are each only using about 5GB of their mounts,              I am impressed with how lean you have managed to keep those installs.              > can I just divide sda 6 in two and sda 7 in two, giving me sda's 9 and       > 10 (or whatever) on which to install my two newish OS's and have them              Wish you luck there. By the way, if you took the default during       partition creations, you could squeeze some space from lost+found       using tune2fs to reduce the reserved blocks percentage              > all make use of the single /Home??              I would assume the first time you ran kde on Mageia or mandriva 2011       they would modify your kde stuff so 2009 would not run until you       deleted ~/.kde_whatever and reconfigured your 2009 desktop.              > Side question What has likely happened to sda4??              Nothing, it is an extended partition. :)              PS: partitions 7 and 8 will be renumbered when you run Mageia       installer.              I cannot remember which one, but I remember a install failure because /       was not large enough when set at around 8gig or something.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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