Thread: how to make 2 parts of 1 HDD

If you use the command line there's one thing, you really need to pay attention to the details, you can't just go through it fast like with mouse clicks.
home/user/directory is very different from /home/user/directory for example, in most situations.
Takes some time to get used to it, but it can quickly become second nature.. sort of. For everything else, there's --help and man. :)

Not sure if I mentioned this, for Unix systems I would not use rar, it's probably long outdated and who knows if (how) it works (closed source).
I usually archive with tar and gzip, tar makes one archive out of many files anf gzip takes care of compression. Like 'tar zcf archive.tgz files' - or some say bzip is better but I didn't use it, then I guess you do 'tar cf archive.tar files, then bzip file.tar.
If you got some time can experiment a little if it's any better for you. Many windows archive programs can open it as well, like winzip or 7zip if I'm not mistakenso there's nothing wrong with archiving it that way.

Part of the reason I'm doing it because I try to avoid using closed source, and/or payed programs, when there's perfectly good free, legit alternatives (and I know that may sound a bit silly to say here). Besides you can't go wrong with software that's like 20 year old but still worked on :)