partitioning

[Ray Parrish]

Rashkae wrote:
> Thufir wrote:
>   
>> Rashkae <ubuntu <at> tigershaunt.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>     
>>>> sdb1         windows 2000 professional
>>>> sdb3         /
>>>> sdb4         /home
>>>> sda          extra stuff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> does this seem reasonable?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Looks good to me..
>>>
>>> Although, if I were going to put the time into repartitioning / copying
>>> hard drives, I would be sorely tempted at those really cheap > 200GB
>>> drives going on sale all over the place.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>
>> thanks for both replies.   I booted to the live cd and started running the GUI
>> installer but was a bit confused.  I tried a few different options, but kept
>> getting messages like this:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Language: English
>>  Keyboard layout: USA
>>  Name: piter
>>  Login name: piter
>>  Location: America/Vancouver
>>  Migration Assistant:
>>  Ubuntu 8.04.1 (8.04) (/dev/sda1):
>>  brigitte: Mozilla Firefox
>>
>>
>> If you continue, the changes listed below will be written to the disks.
>> Otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually.
>>
>> WARNING: This will destroy all data on any partitions you have removed as
>> well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted.
>>
>> The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
>>  SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda)
>>  SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb)
>>
>> The following partitions are going to be formatted:
>>  partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as swap
>>  partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb) as swap
>>
>>
>>
>> which concern me because I don't want to lose data on sda but don't want to back
>> up (lotsa cd burning) at the moment.
>>
>> I tried the manual approach, selected which sdb partitions I wanted effected,
>> but keep getting that message that the partition table for sda has been changed.
>>  If so, I didn't intentionally change it :(
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Thufir  (postponed installing)
>>
>>
>>
>>     
Hello,

It's only trying to format partition 5 of sda, so you're not in danger 
of losing data on any of the other partitions on that drive. That's the 
way I read the output you posted above.

Later, Ray Parrish

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