From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PtmRB-0003gB-OU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:37:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75483E055D; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40719E055D for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3F51B40E1 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:36:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.792 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.792 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.349, BAYES_00=-2.599, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vc6p8BSCKBm6 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5662E1B40E7 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtmPZ-0001A1-WD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:36:10 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-196-210.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.196.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:36:09 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-196-210.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:36:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:35:55 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4D6A6756.9050603@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-196-210.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110121 Thunderbird/3.3a2 In-Reply-To: <4D6A6756.9050603@optonline.net> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8d9b0ac119114cfc9f993dd5f039c52e On 02/27/2011 07:01 AM, dhk wrote: > I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the > way I wanted. It had the usual Linux partitions and a partition that I > was going to use for Window 7. I wanted to make this an LVM2 partition, > but that didn't work; Good old fdisk is indeed old, and there are much easier ways to do what you wanted to do. I've used this product several times with perfect results (so far): http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Of course if you already have a working linux machine you can install gparted and use it that way to move, resize and create partitions. Very easy and almost painless.