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Re: resizing ext3?



On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:48:08AM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:12:27PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > is it possible to resize ext3? id like to slip macosx onto ibook
> > without nuking debian (as evil as i feel for even thinking
> > of having a non-pure linux system)
> 
> 
> I used parted for that purpose on my PowerBook, and it worked
> well. Maybe I had to run tune2fs after to re-enable journalling (I
> actually forgot what exactly I did, it was easy).
> 
> Don't forget to re-run ybin (ie to reinstall yaboot) after playing
> with the partition table.

Well, i believe it happensin two steps : 

Use resize2fs to actually change the filesystem size, and then use
parted to change the partition size.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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