[H-GEN] Resizing partitions

[David Jericho]

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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:25:19PM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
>    I would like to shrink one and enlarge the other. Has anyone had
>    experience with resizing ext2/3 fs partitions? Is it worth resizing
>    or should I find an alternate way of doing this?

ext3 copes well enough with resizing downwards, and upwards. It's more
the issue of where the start of the filesystem actually resides on the
filesystem that has now grown (down presummably). 

I'd suggest that depending on how customised the machine is, it'd be
easier to copy the data you want to keep elsewhere and reinstall.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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