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Re: resizing partitions



on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) wrote:
> On Sat 24 Mar 01,  1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: 

> >     Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might
> > be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is
> > supposed to allow non-destructive repartitioning. How would you
> > recommend such a thing under Linux? I don't have a windows
> > partition, nor do I want one, so Partition Magic isn't an option.
> > I'd just like to grow my /tmp partition a bit. 
> > 
> parted and ext2resize.
> 
> also, partition magic knows about ext2, so that's your easiest option.
> just get a partition magic bootdisk.

Have heard good things about parted (gparted?), but typically do the old
fashioned thing of backing up partitions, repartitioning, and restoring
to partitions.  With the luxury of over-the-net archival (though I still
keep current tape backups), this isn't terribly slow.

Fact is that repartition-in-place *still* requires data backups for
failure recovery.

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