Re: deleting FAT partition and enlarging reiserfs

[Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 03:46 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

>
> 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.

Thanks, I never thought of using a Knoppix CD.  I will download an iso and try 
that.

8)


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