[H-GEN] Changing Partition Sizes

[Rick Phillips]

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Thanks David,

You gave me what I needed.

Regards,

Rick Phillips

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 18:11, David Starkoff wrote:
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    At 2002-08-31T17:36+1000, Rick Phillips wrote:
    
    > Subject: [H-GEN] Changing Partition Sizes
    > In-Reply-To: <20020827035730.59543.qmail at web21310.mail.yahoo.com>
    > References: <20020827035730.59543.qmail at web21310.mail.yahoo.com>
    
    I know this is a peeve that others may not share, but if you (that's
    not "you" personally, it's the general you) want to start a completely
    new thread by replying to a message, please take the time to prune
    your headers.
    
    It's much neater for those with threaded mail readers.
    
Don't know where this came from!!!

    > Is there an easy way to change the size of a partition without
    > damaging data on the surrounding partitions such as one can do with
    > (say) Partition Magic?
    > 
    > I do have PM7 but it only works with Ext2 whereas I am using EXT3
    
    ext3 is ext2 with a journal file.  They have the same partition
    types (at least they do on my boxes).
    
      <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/>
    
    You can turn an ext2 file system into an ext3 file system with an
    invocation of tune2fs.  You can treat an ext3 file system as an ext2
    file system by mounting it as an ext2 file system.
    
    That said, perhaps GNU parted will do what you wish:
    
      <http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/>
    
    or maybe Mandrake's DiskDrake:
    
      <http://www.mandrakelinux.com/diskdrake/>
    
    (Caveat: I have used neither.)
    
    David.
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