[CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

Larry Martell larry.martell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 16:35:31 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS
>> 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition
>> the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use
>> that. Has anyone used the partitioning tool that comes with 6.2 to do
>> this? Can I have some level of confidence that it will not mess things
>> up so that I cannot boot into Windows? if it screws up and makes
>> Windows unbootable that would be a Very Bad Thing.
>
> If you have space somewhere to save a backup, you can boot a
> clonezilla-live CD and do a disk->image copy that will save your
> current partitioning and content.  It can connect to the image storage
> via nfs, windows file sharing, or ssh, and it knows enough about most
> filesystems including ntfs to only save the used portions of the
> partitions.

No, I don't think there's space for that.

I was planning on following the instructions at:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/centos-6-netinstall-network-installation/



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