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Re: [PLUG] need to resize partition
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In my experience parted is not always destructive. It depends on what
you are doing and where your partitions are located. For example I
had a 9 GB drive which was only about 25% utilized it was one big DOS
partition (for win2k), I shrunk that partition by 50% and created a
new partition for FreeBSD on that machine with no ill-effects to the
win2k environment or its data.
Of course if memory serves your situation was a little more
complicated so you probably needed to preserve your data prior to
making the changes.
On or about Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:25:48AM -0500, William Shank wrote:
> parted - but it's destructive- so i had to move the data off first.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Nelson
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: 12/28/01 8:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] need to resize partition
>
> Just out of curiosity what did you use to resize the partitions?
>
>
> On 27/12/01 12:13 -0500, William Shank wrote:
> > not an option for vaio r505
> >
> > i manged to do it almost completely successfully, except the xserver
> won't
> > start by default.
> >
> > also, how do i format a partition to ext3? mksf -t ext3 /dev/hda11
> doesn't
> > work
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Brosius
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Sent: 12/27/01 11:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] need to resize partition
> >
> > William Shank wrote:
> > >
> > > i ran out of space on / (only 240M partitioned) - but the /opt dir
> has
> > 90M,
> > > so I'd like to move it onto it's own partition. the /var slice has
> > lots of
> > > room (dedicated 1G, only using 100M).
> > >
> > > how can I unmount /var, split it, and remount /var and mount /opt on
> > the
> > > other slice?
> > >
> > > I know linux has a partion splitting util and RH7.2 has a graphical
> > > partioning tool, but can these be undestructive? will it work with
> > ext3? how
> > > can I umnount /var, says it's busy - i guess with httpd, and lpd,
> > anything
> > > else?
> >
> > Easiest way is to boot with a boot/rescue disk, change the partitions
> > around as you need, mount your root partition, and change the mount
> > points (/etc/fstab) as desired. That avoids worrying about what is
> > accessing the file system when you make the changes.
> >
> > (Be careful you don't change the partitions before you save or move
> data
> > you need on them.)
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Brosius
> >
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