On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 07:45, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > >From GNU's parted webpage > (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) under Features: "For > ext2, ext3 and reiserfs: the start of the partition must stay fixed." > This would prevent me from doing what I had intended. Does this mean I > must use Partition Magic, or do you know of other Linux-side tools? (I > did a quick look, but discovered nothing substantial) Yup. That's entirely true. The beginning of a ext2 partition MUST stay fixed for a RESIZE operation. A MOVE operation, on the other hand, is a completely different issue. :) Just move the partition down and then resize it up instead of the other way around. > Also, someone was telling me that if I wanted to resize the / partition > I would have to boot to another partition (say, a floppy) and perform > the operations while / was not mounted. Does this sound accurate? Yes, that's correct. You can get a floppy boot disk with parted already on it on the parted home page. The official floppy images can be found at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk/ You can find lots of other ones if you do a quick google search. > In an earlier post you had mentioned how odd it was to have /boot > located where it was, and why - in that location - to have it at all. > Those partitions were left from an earlier version of Red Hat that I was > playing around with some time ago (before I installed woody), and that > was its default/recommended disk setup. You may want to just create a /boot on / and get rid of that partition. That's another 50 MB you can put on your ext2 partition. (And /boot should never really get much bigger than 4-5 MB.) -Alex
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