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resizing can be done in the mandriva control center > local disks > Manage disk partitions, or you could install gparted or qtparted, these are graphical partitioning tools (gparted > gnome, qtparted > kde).

 

just another idea, you said you have a free partition on your sata disk, that is unused as of yet, why not format it with a linux file system like reiser or ext3 (just examples) and use it as your home ?

 

btw, with the ntfs-3g-driver you have read/write access to your ntfs-partitions (if you wish so), you can mount them read-only if you just want to read the data and don't want to risk accidentally deleting something.

 

as / 7GB should be enough for a normal desktop system, while it is never bad to have more space :D

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just another idea, you said you have a free partition on your sata disk, that is unused as of yet, why not format it with a linux file system like reiser or ext3 (just examples) and use it as your home ?

yes, I thought of that. but since I'm no expert on linux filesystems, I wasn't sure since I already have a 8GB /home on the IDE drive... how I use the unused SATA drive area for /home also. Or would it just be a "data" area?

 

I chose the "let mandriva decide" partitioning during install. Since my IDE drive was around 80GB (minus "overhead") and win2k was using 61GB, mandriva used 7GB for / and 8GB for home and 2GB for swap (2 x 1GB RAM).

 

the reason I was wanting more space for /home, I thought that if I want to experiment with running windows games (half life, etc) under wine/linux... I need to copy the entire DVDs to linux... I wasn't sure if I had to do that to /home... or just in any linux partition...

 

So I can just leave the IDE as is... and format the unused SATA partition (around 40 or 50GB I think) as ext3 for linux...?

 

Thanks

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You could delete the empty ntfs partition, create a ext3 partition in its place, then copy all contents of your /home there, and then mount it as your /home, after which you can delete your current /home and use the free space to increase the size of your /

 

On the other hand, 7GB should be enough for /

 

What I would recommend is that you free up your current /home as I just described, and then use that partition for a future linux installation (2008.1, something else, whatever)...

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you can do this in the Mandriva Control Center > manage disk partitions

 

there you select the empty ntfs-partition and tell it to format the partition, it will then format this as ext3 (the default file system for Mandriva), after that set the mountpoint of this partition to /home, Mandriva might ask you if you want to transfer your data from your current /home to the new one > klick YES, then close the partitioning tool, when Mandriva asks if you want to save your changes to fstab, again click yes. now your former empty ntfs-parttion will be your /home and your former /home will be a free ext3-partition, which you can use for installing another Linux, as artee suggested.

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ok.. my resolution keeps resetting to where less than a half-screen shows... :wall:

 

I guess I need to edit etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

 

what do I change? (in mcc, I change the resolution from 1280 x 768 to 1280 x 960 and it works fine... until a reboot... then its back to 1280x768 :wall: )

 

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
ModelName "LT-23X475"
HorizSync 31-58
VertRefresh 56-71

# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 47.7 kHz hsync, ratio 15/9)
ModeLine "1280x768" 80.12 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795 -hsync -vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576"	 50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576"	 63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX - GeForce 8800"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
Option "RenderAccel" "false"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

  Subsection "Display"
	Depth 8
	Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 15
	Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 16
	Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 24
	Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection
EndSection

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Maybe you could try to define your Panel manually in Mandriva Control Center, there try the generic flat panels, on my notebook with 1400x1050 screen I only get the right resolution when using the generic flat panel.

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If I looked at the right place the native resolution of your LCD is 1280x768:

 

http://support.jvc.com/consumer/product.js...elId=MODL027238

 

JVC LT-23X475

 

High Resolution W-XGA (1280 x 768) LCD

 

Is this your LCD ?

 

Seems to be a bit similar to the wxga problem with some notebook-panels, I think the way to solve this was installing an additional package (i915resolution ?), the problem was that many graphics-card-BIOSes didn't contain the neccessary modelines/resolutions, but I don't know if/how this problem was fixed with newer x.org drivers.

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JVC LT-23X475

yes. it's an LCD TV that has an input for a computer monitor connection. Win2k post-install displays full-screen on it (although at 640x480). After installing the video card s/w and driver(nvidia) I can change the res to whatever. In windows, I use 1024 x 768... it's a little big, but my eyes aren't what they used to be...

 

In mandriva, after shutting down and rebooting... it chooses 1280x768. I get a partial screen. I can see all the way across, but only the bottom 1/2 of the screen shows. I go into console and enter mcc and go to Display and move the res from 1280x768 to 1280x960. Then I get a complete screen after I do a "startx".

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