Re: How do I resize my reiser partition?
hi ....
the tool you may be lookin for is resize_reiserfs...
but i must say i don't know if it resizes the entry in your partition table
or if you must do that by hand ?
another tool could be gnu parted ( but i don't know how to use that either
)...
ok now to the point i wanted to make...
im using reiserfs with lvm ( logical volume manager )....
in that combination it's quite easy resizing your partition....
take a look at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0102/msg01262.html
there's a little introduction from a friendly debian user ( not in resizing
but in setting up lvm with reiserfs ) !! i started with this and it worked
fine :-)
if you finally got lvm installed ( i see you have 10G to play with ) and have
your first physical volumes , volume groups and logical volumes you can
easily resize a logical volume with lvextend and than resize the
reiserfs with resize_reiserfs...
lvm is very very powerful ( creating logical volumes over 2 or more
harddrives etc.. )
try it out....
if you have further questions don't mind asking me ( im not a crack but i did
it recently )...
cu peter
On Saturday 24 February 2001 13:26, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I am experimenting with resierfs and have successfully created a resier
> partition onto which I copies my Debian root filesystem. Everything works
> really well, except that now I want to delete my old ext2 partition and
> extend the new reiser partition to use up the freespace.
>
> I have spent ages trying to find out exactly what to do. I understand I
> can grow the reiser partition by adding a mount command to my /etc/fstab.
> The problem I have is what to put as the 'blocks' entry.
>
> Currently I have:
>
> hda2 Primary Win95 FAT32 6325.25
> hda4 Boot Primary Linux 3569.78
> hda5 Logical Linux ext2 10594.17
>
> I want to remove /dev/hda5 and grow /dev/hda4 (reiserfs) to fill the
> space.
>
> df gives me:
>
> /dev/hda4 3485968 2311752 1174216 67% /
> /dev/hda5 10187124 2466712 7410040 25% /mnt
>
> Can anyone help? Hold my hand a little?!
>
> Many thanks.
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