Okay. Here's what you do:
1. Start up fsck, and shrink the partition you want to shrink, but DO NOT
SAVE THE PARTITION TABLE, just look at the size you get, and write it
down.
2. Make sure the filesystem is at least mounted read-only, preferrably not
mounted at all.
3. Run ext2resize /dev/whatever <the size from step 1>
4. run fsck again and do like step #1, but actually save it this time
5. Reboot.
6. Do what you want with the extra free space.
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:20:43PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:52:59PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> > If you need to look at splitting an ext2 partition. Have a look at
> > ext2resize. It seems to work for me, but MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR
> > FILESYSTEM MOUNTED READ-WRITE, OR IT WILL GET CORRUPTED IRREVOCABLY.
> >
> Could you explain how to reclaim that space. I semi-successfully used
> ext2resize in the past, but I couldn't get the changed partition size
> correctly reflected in my partition table. The instructions were a
> little negligent on this part. I ended up repartitioning and
> reinstalling after f**ing up my partion table and filesystem. Kinda
> defeated the whole exercise.
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