how to install Windows on an existing partition?

[Pietro Cerutti]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:48:37 -0300, Alejandro Pulver
<alejandro at varnet.biz> wrote:
> 
> Hello,

Hello,

> 
> If you want to use the free space of 'g' you will have to delete it and
> collapse all the partitions near 'd'. But is *dangerous*, and in fact
> there are *no* tools (I searched and it is often said) to resize
> filesystems (even if you resize the partition, the filesystem thinks
> the space is still assigned to it, I think). The only think I believe is
> possible (with raw tools: 'dd') is moving partitions, but if you
> are moving less space than the size of the partition itself, it is only
> possible to do it backwards, and the copied bytes will be overritten
> (after copied) so if the process is interrupted you will lose all the
> data (half in the destination, the rest in the original place, and one
> immediatly following the other).
> 
> I found a (possible) better way to do this:
> 
> 1) Revert the changes with the partitions 'd' and 'g' (back-up, delete,
> create only 'd', restore).
> 
> 2) Save the data in 'f' ('/home') to somewhere (like '/usr').
> 
> 2) Delete 'f' ('/home') and create it with less space (like 10 GB, or
> less, if you do not need much space there).
> 
> 3) Then the BSD label entry 'c' should have less size.
> 
> 4) Use 'fdisk' to resize the slice. It should be equal to the size of
> partition 'c' (that is not a real partition, but the size sum of all
> of them). Then the slice must not cover the entire disk, and you will
> be able to create a 'msdosfs' slice after it (in the unallocated space).
> 
> I never tried this and I do not know if it is possible, so I *recommend*
> you to back up your data.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ale

It sounds quite complicated... I need some more experience before doing that!

Thank you, I'll take in consideration in the future!


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