Re: deleting FAT partition and enlarging reiserfs

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

Pollywog wrote:
> I have a FAT partition that is approximatley 6 GB in size and I want to delete 
> it and then make my linux partition larger by taking up the free space.
>
> I have never used parted and I am not even sure I can do this with parted.
> Would it be better to wait until the next reinstallation of Linux and then do 
> it?  I have looked around for "Parted for Dummies" but have not found such 
> documentation.  It seems to me that I would need to put parted on a bootable 
> disk of some sort in order to do it, since I probably can't resize a mounted 
> partition.

definitely don't want to resize a mounted partition. probably wouldn't 
let you anyway.
> Any ideas?

I used a knoppix cd which has QtParted on it. Nice graphical interface 
and seems to handle just about any partition type for resizing. 
obviously you need to back it up but good first! And watch out Knoppix 
detects swap partitions and mounts them as swap automatically. If you're 
going to be resizing your swap too, this could cause problems. you can 
turn it of by specifying "noswap" on the boot line.

A
> 8)