Re: ext2resize
On Sunday 18 February 2001 18:15, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> 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
i didn't mean to delete /dev/hda5 as file...
i meant deleting the partition with fdisk...
but i will now try ( after a backup ) parted...
peter
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