I'm cixelsyd today! Yes, I mean fdisk.
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 07:57:47AM -0500, David Natkins wrote:
>
> Dwayne,
> Don't you mean fdisk and not fsck?
>
> "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote:
> >
> > 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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