LFS!!!!!!!!!!!!

**TeRG** · 02-12-2002, 09:40 PM

I am doing lfs now....i got bash compiled and i hope to get a few more things compiled tonight.....i used a 1 gig partition that i used fips to make...i stole it from my windows partition (/me gets arrested by microsoft)...it reccoments a 750 meg partition or larger. should i have gone bigger??? (that will just be where i boot from, i will install things to my other partition, or copy it all to my other partition.

**Ashcrow** · 02-12-2002, 09:53 PM

I am doing lfs now....i got bash compiled and i hope to get a few more things compiled tonight.....i used a 1 gig partition that i used fips to make...i stole it from my windows partition (/me gets arrested by microsoft)...it reccoments a 750 meg partition or larger. should i have gone bigger??? (that will just be where i boot from, i will install things to my other partition, or copy it all to my other partition.

1 gig is fine. If you are planning on goinf 100% LFS then a larger partition size would be better but you can resize it if you need to.

**TeRG** · 02-12-2002, 10:06 PM

1 gig is fine. If you are planning on goinf 100% LFS then a larger partition size would be better but you can resize it if you need to.

you can re-size linux partitions? could i make hda2 smaller and make hda4 bigger without losing data?? (hda2 is where slack is installed and hda3 is my swap and hda4 is my lfs partition)

**Feztaa** · 02-12-2002, 10:25 PM

I don't think you can resize partitions.

My LFS install is using about 670 MBs, but that's after I removed all the source trees for the crap I installed. When I had the source trees for KDE, Mozilla, and a few other things all at once, the LFS partition was at like 1.3 GBs, so you might have some trouble squeezing everything onto that disk (just compile everything one at a time, and remove the source right after, and you should be fine).

02-13-2002, 02:29 AM

I have a whole wonderful 40 gb hd for my LFS system... I love it so much

**cga** · 02-16-2002, 11:22 AM

I have a whole wonderful 40 gb hd for my LFS system... I love it so much

My entire hard drive is only eight gig. *

**xkill** · 02-17-2002, 01:57 AM

Use fdisk and erase and recreate the partition you want to resize. The important thing is that it has the same starting block. This only changes what is written in the partition table, it will not harm/format your data. Then you have to resize the file system. resize2fs...gets the job done, I resized my partition the other day to recover a few gigs and it worked pretty good. Make sure to run e2fsck before and after you run resize2fs. I didn't run e2fsck after resizing and I got a kernel panic on the next reboot...had to boot from floppy and run e2fsck from there, but after that it booted with no probs.

02-17-2002, 07:51 AM

My entire hard drive is only eight gig.

w0w, and here I'm thinking about getting another 40gb hd and setting up RAID

**Schotty** · 02-18-2002, 10:06 PM

I don't think you can resize partitions.

Its dangerous, but can be done quite easily. The problem is if the partition isnt defragged or you go too far. Each case should be self explanitory as to the baddd effects :)