[LBo] Partition Party (was Permanent /home partition)

[Jisao]

I have made an experiment of removing a fat32 partition on my hard drive 
and put an ext2 instead.  Stefan had suggested I tried that to share 
large files between windows and linux.

Good thing I started with a backup up, because something went very 
wrong, and I ended up not being able to access the drive at all from 
Suse.  Rebooted the computer, as Suse suggested, and got a grub "error 
17" message.

Rebooted the computer with a Kanotix LiveCD, and could read the 
partitions, except for the NTFS one. 

Put the drive in a window box as a slave, and could read the NTFS 
partitions fine.  The disk management could read all the drives on the 
disk (inlcuding all the healthy unknown partitions).

Reput the drive in my computer and fixed the MBR. So at least now I can 
access win.  I still have to figure out if I want to install grub 
without reinstalling a full distro (and how), or if I want to wipe all 
Linux partitions, change the layout and reinstall Kanotix and Ubuntu (I 
forego Suse.  Can't get used to it after years of  Debian cousins).

Finally, I will have to figure out what really happened when Suse wrote 
the new partition table and what is the "theory" behind reading all 
these partitions from different systems.  That should keep me busy while 
commuting to work. That way, I will not repeat such a successful 
partition mish mash.

So, this is my partition party.  I guess when I am done, I will have 
learned something more about partitioning.

Jisao, (having fun).