On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 11:23 AM CAREY SCHUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Thank you.
(wow, Lennart...univ of waterloo was a big pert in the early days of my first career, VM/370 and successors on mainframes)
Yes, it appears to just be one big filesystem
1. why is GParted unwilling to recognize that? 2. is there some command I can do in gparted to recognize it? 3. why is Linux unwilling to recognize and mount it 4. is there something I can add to linux so that it will? 5. or recommendations for formatting in gparted so winblows and linux can both use this (I back up winblows user data to usb disks, some data going to linux, some going just to archive)
Here's 'a' possible option. If its all one big partition - - - 1. shrink size of partition to whatever size you feel you need for your M$ partition (I add this step for security - - - - you do have a backup opf the M$ stuff - - - yes?) 2. boot into M$ win to confirm that everything is still working 3. go back to your (either of gparted run from another disk or your systemrescue dvd/usb stick) and do your partitioning (make sure you actually write those partitions) (you could also check here if you want to make sure the number and order of your partitions is the way you want it but that's optional (imo)) 4. Do your install (make sure to tell the installer software which partitions to use and whatnot (I use labels!!) 5. complete the rest of the install 6. double check after install is optional now if you aren't installing a new system then you will need to be telling your system which partitions mean what and how to use them. (That's something I don't know much about so I'll leave that for someone who does!) HTH