mark2741
November 8th, 2008, 04:03 AM
I have a 300gb internal hard drive. I went into the manual setting of the partition manager that is available using the Live CD, and I deleted all the partitions and then created 4 new partitions:
100gb NTFS - for Windows XP
60gb EXT3 - for Ubuntu OS
8gb SWAP (I have 4gb of RAM and I read to use double that as the swap)
111gb FAT32 "Shared"
The "Shared" partition I setup so that it could be a partition that I would store all my data/personal settings/music/etc that I wish to share with the Windows OS and Ubuntu.
After doing the formatting, I quit the Live CD installer and then rebooted with the Windows XP setup CD and did a clean XP install into the NTFS partition, then after that was done rebooted and did a clean install of 8.04 64-bit and then immediate upgrade to 8.10 64-bit. Everything is great except one problem:
When I created the "Shared" partition, I didn't fully understand the whole 'mount point' thing, and the only options that the partition manager allowed were to mount it as "/DOS" or "/WINDOWS". I chose the "/DOS" option. Now, it is a folder and not an actual mountable drive. That would be fine if I was just going to use it for Ubuntu, but I want to have it as a mountable drive that I can access in both Windows XP and Ubuntu (as well as my wife's wirelessly connected laptop running Ubuntu).
How do I get rid of the /DOS folder (which is a whopping 111gb!) and make it a mountable drive instead?
Background:
Due to having all kinds of issues with Ubuntu 8.10 (and some with 8.04), and finding that after just 9 months of using Windows Vista as my primary O/S it was quickly suffering that "Windows Rot" where it just gets slower and slower, I decided to upgrade all my hardware and then do a clean formatting and partitioning of my drive and do a nice dual-boot setup with XP and Ubuntu 8.10. Everything is running superfast and great now, with my current setup being:
AMD Athlon x2 5600+
4GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 8600GT 512MB
Thanks,
mark
100gb NTFS - for Windows XP
60gb EXT3 - for Ubuntu OS
8gb SWAP (I have 4gb of RAM and I read to use double that as the swap)
111gb FAT32 "Shared"
The "Shared" partition I setup so that it could be a partition that I would store all my data/personal settings/music/etc that I wish to share with the Windows OS and Ubuntu.
After doing the formatting, I quit the Live CD installer and then rebooted with the Windows XP setup CD and did a clean XP install into the NTFS partition, then after that was done rebooted and did a clean install of 8.04 64-bit and then immediate upgrade to 8.10 64-bit. Everything is great except one problem:
When I created the "Shared" partition, I didn't fully understand the whole 'mount point' thing, and the only options that the partition manager allowed were to mount it as "/DOS" or "/WINDOWS". I chose the "/DOS" option. Now, it is a folder and not an actual mountable drive. That would be fine if I was just going to use it for Ubuntu, but I want to have it as a mountable drive that I can access in both Windows XP and Ubuntu (as well as my wife's wirelessly connected laptop running Ubuntu).
How do I get rid of the /DOS folder (which is a whopping 111gb!) and make it a mountable drive instead?
Background:
Due to having all kinds of issues with Ubuntu 8.10 (and some with 8.04), and finding that after just 9 months of using Windows Vista as my primary O/S it was quickly suffering that "Windows Rot" where it just gets slower and slower, I decided to upgrade all my hardware and then do a clean formatting and partitioning of my drive and do a nice dual-boot setup with XP and Ubuntu 8.10. Everything is running superfast and great now, with my current setup being:
AMD Athlon x2 5600+
4GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 8600GT 512MB
Thanks,
mark