From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   unruh wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   So sda 4 (primary) has become sda's 5-8 (logical)!   
      
   Thought it might be something like that!   
      
   Tks.   
      
   Daniel   
      
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