Re: Resizing partition
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:05:08PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> 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)
That's a good idea anyway, whether you use this method for resizing or not.
-- hendrik
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