Re: Partition Resizing
You can also try "regular" parted, in the "parted" package.
This is a command-line tool, very reliable, and fairly easy to use.
Personally I'd rather not use a GUI to munge my partitions,
especially as the X server has not been all that stable lately.
qtparted is a frontend to parted.
Unfortunately, as I understand, parted (and presumably also qtparted) cannot
move the start of an ext2, ext3 or reiserfs partition, so you may have trouble
doing what you need to do - you may need to stuff around with shrinking your
partition, then copying it, then deleting the old one and expanding the new one
or something like that. Might be quicker just to reinstall! If you can make a
backup of your filesystems, then repartition, then restore, it might be easier.
Beats me why it can't move the start, I would have thought that would only
involve copying blocks. Also, the version of parted in sarge doesn't have
reiserfs support because libreiserfs isn't in sarge - does anyone know why
libreiserfs was pulled?
Sounds to me like the moral of the story is "use LVM"!
Sam
Package: parted
Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy,
resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful
for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising
disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package
contains the Parted binary and manual page.
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Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and
PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw
disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which
are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16
and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap.
Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS,
UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems,
but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet.
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Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install
the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been
removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the
default package.
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The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause
massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment,
they could exist, so please back up all important files before
running it, and do so at your own risk.
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