Christian Betz on Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:43:56 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] resizing an extended partition


Well I saw it on freshmeat a little bit ago and
downloaded/compiled/installed it. I never got around to using it though,
the interface seems somewhat cryptic. I haven't read all the docs yet
though.

Look for it on FM. has anyone used this program?
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Xtian Betz - shux@subculture.org - AIM: Shux LOS

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:

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> I never heard of "ext2resize". Tell me/us more. TX
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> shux@subculture.org on 08/04/99 03:11:57 PM
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> 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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