Re: ext2resize

[Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de>]

studenten wg <debian@babylon-systems.de> writes:

> can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? (
> in single user mode i suppose )...

No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called "device file". Device
files are the interfaces to the device drivers. If you access
/dev/hda5, Linux forwards the requests to the device driver, which is
responsible for this device file. So, /dev/hda5 isn't 500MB; the
partition, which is represented by /dev/hda5 is 500MB big.

        hth,
	moritz
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