Aaron Brown on Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:26:34 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] resizing an extended partition


The only thing I know of that will resize an extended partition, is fips
or partition magick.

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Christian Betz wrote:

:Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
:From: Christian Betz <shux@subculture.org>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: [Plug] resizing an extended partition
:
:
:I thought I'd at least ask before completely reformatting. Is there any
:way to resize an entire extended partition. I know ext2resize can resize
:ext2 partitions.
:
:   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
:/dev/hdb1   *         1       260   2088418+   6  FAT16
:/dev/hdb3           521       784   2120580    5  Extended
:/dev/hdb5           521       773   2032191   83  Linux
:/dev/hdb6           774       784     88326   82  Linux swap
:
:I want to have the extended partition go from 261 to 784, and then move
:and resize the ext2 partition (hdb5) to 261 to 773.
:
:I doubt this can be done, but if you know, that's great.
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