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hey folks, I've tried everything but I can't get my harddrive partitioned the way I want it.. case is, it contains 2 NTFS partitions for Windows to use, 1 for the system, 1 for file storage... primary ntfs and extended logical NTFS.
the way I want it is I create a primary ext3 for my root filesystem, a swap partition and a primary ext3 for my home folder... which would amount to a total of 5 partitions, however, every partitioner I try to use will not let me make the last partition..
anyone got a suggestion? (buying new harddrives is not in the budget)
edit: sorry about my stupid question... I overread the part in the beginners guide that said 'only 4 primary partitions per drive', so I opted for primary ntfs, primary root and swap, extended used for my home folder and file storage
Last edited by zandaa (2008-07-14 20:04:22)
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So how much free space do you have besides the ntfs partitions? If I'm not mistaken you'll have to shrink one or both of your ntfs partitions to free up some space then you should be able to add the ext3 partitions as long as you only have 3 primary and one extended that has as many logical drives in it as you want to create or you can have a max of 4 primary partitions. Your problem may be the fact that your win partitions are ntfs. I don't know if you can manipulate ntfs partitions in arch without ntfs-3g: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
The way I've done this before is to have two primary windows partitions (I've always used fat32), then a primary partition for swap and one extended partition which I've set up another 11 logical drives in for a total of 15 partitions. The reason for the 15 total is that some linuxes (fedora for example) won't let you install if you have more than 15 partitions. So you should definitely be able to set up 5 partitions.
Edit: BTW, welcome to Arch. And my post is late again.
Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-07-14 20:40:27)
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