Re: Resizing partition

[Paolo Pantaleo <paolopantaleo@gmail.com>]

2005/7/27, David Berg <drberg1000@gmail.com>:
> I have some dead space on my disk before logical partition hda7 that I
> want to add to hda7.  Parted is not letting me resize or move the
> partition to include the dead space.  Is there another utility that
> might or should I just plan on restoring from backup?
> 
> Does anyone know why parted could grow a partition from the end but
> not the beginning?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave Berg
> 
> 

The best solution is ot back up your partition
dd if=/dev/hda7 | gzip myfile.gz
good if your partition is almost full
or
tar czvf output.tar.gz /hda7_mountpoint
if partition is not so full (remember to unmount anything that is in a
child directory of /hda7_mountpoint)

then create new partition and restore

guznip -c myfile.gz | dd of=/dev/hda7
or
cd /hda7_mountpoint
tar xzvpf output.tar.gz

PAolo