In , on 07/03/06
   at 10:13 PM, "Eugene Poole"  said:

>I'm not sure if this is completly a hardware question.

It's not, but it's close enough.

>1. I would like to add the 15-GB drive to my eCS box. What I don't want
>to do is increase the number of drive letters I'm using. Can I install
>the 15-GB, split it into 2 partitions, and expand both I: and J:? 
>Without damaging the data that's currently on I: and J:?

You can do this with JFS volumes.  The can be expanded on the fly.

>2. C:, D:, G:, H: are currently running in compatibility mode (HPFS). At
>my current level I cannot boot from a JFS volume, but I would like to
>convert all of the others to JFS. How can I do this - without losing
>data? BTW, H: has my swap on it. D: and G: are referenced in my
>config.sys.

You can't convert HPFS to JFS, but since you are running eCS, LVM gives
you pretty much full control of your drive letters and makes this kind of
conversion easy when you have some free disk space.

It's simple to boot from the install CD, create a volume to hold the data
and copy the data from the old volume to the new volume.  Once you are
satisfied with the copy.  Hide the old volume and change the drive letter
on the new volume and you are good to go.

When you are done, you will have the same drive letters, but their
physical locations might be different and the underlying volumes will be
larger.

You need to do the work booted from the install CD or a maintenance
partition to avoid locked files.


Regards,

Steven

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