Note that Knoppix will use your swap partition. You should turn off swap before you run QTParted. You also should run QTParted as root. Normally, when booting Knoppix you are a regular user. Just bring up an xterm or console, the "su -" to become root, then turn off the swap: swapoff /dev/hda6 Then run qtparted: qtparted&
You should be able to resize if you have sufficient space. (I've done this quite a few times). On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:05:19 -0500 Zhao Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm back to bug you guys on this thread. (BTW, It's very likely that I > may use some terms incorrectly, due to my unfamiliarity with linux. > Sorry about that. :) ) > > In case you may forget, let me repeat my situation: > > only 1 hard drive, and only RedHat Enterprise installed on it, and no > unallocated free space. > > In order to resize the hard drive to give some space to Fedora, I used > Qtparted on Knoppix live DVD (I don't have Partition Magic). > Unfortunately it didn't work. > > My current RedHat partition is as follows: > > hda1 ext3 > hda2 ext3 > hda3 ext3 > hda4 extended > hda5 ext3 > hda6 swap > hda7 ext3 > > Note: hda4 consists of hda5, hda6, and hda7. > > When I right-click on the above partitions one by one, "resize" is > gray-out for all partitions, except hda4. So I went ahead to resize > hda4. I set "Free space after" to 30 gb. (hda4 has 42 gb, and no more > than 3 gb is used). Then I got a small pop-up window w/o any information > on it, except for a question mark. > > I googled and found the table at this link: > http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html > > From this table, I suspect that Qtparted can NOT resize ext3/ext2 type > partition. Am I right? > > If this is the case, what other EASY tools do you recommend me to try? > (I also tried Gparted live CD at > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php, but had problems booting the > machine from it) > > Thank you for all input you have given. I really appreciate that. > > Zhao > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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