From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-07-03, Daniel47@teranews.com  wrote:   
   > On this HP 6730b Laptop I currently have Windows 7, Mandriva 2009.0 and   
   > Mandriva 2010.0 on the 250GB HD and I want to install Mandriva 2011 and   
   > Mageina 2.   
   >   
   > Current break up of sda:-   
   > sda1	60GB	NTFS-3G	Windows 7 C:   
   > sda2	22GB	NTFS-3G	Programs D:   
   > sda3	19GB	NTFS-3G	Games E:   
   > sda5	4GB		Linux Swap   
   > sda6	20GB	Ext3	/     Mandriva 2009.0	(15.5GB free)   
   > sda7	18GB	Ext3	/alt  Mandriva 2010.0	(13.6GB free)   
   > sda8	85GB	Ext3	/Home			(57.2GB free)   
   >   
   > I mainly use 2009, so I could replace 2010 with 2011 without much   
   > trouble for me, but my preference would be to have all four linux   
   > versions available.   
   >   
   > As the two installed OS's are each only using about 5GB of their mounts,   
   > 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   
   > all make use of the single /Home??   
      
   Since we do not know what youhave under / it is hard to say, but using   
   /usr, /var, /tmp all under / means my systems tend to uyse about 12GB   
   not 5. Ie, I suspect you might find 5GB or even 10 too small.   
      
   I would put two more partitions hived off from /Home. of at least 10GB   
   each.   
      
      
      
   >   
   > Side question	What has likely happened to sda4??   
      
   1-4 are primary partitions, 5-x are logical. You only have three primary   
   partitions. Thus 1-3.   
      
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