Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 02:02 schrieb ext Lord Sauron: I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3 = linux-swap /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1) Where sda2 should be used to be and XFS partition for Kubuntu. My question is thus: how would

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 07:47 schrieb ext Daniel Barkalow: You can't really do this in any straightforward way. Yes, he can. You know there are partitioning tools out there. The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. Plain wrong. What I'd do is create a new /dev/sda2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:18:41 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: I'd suggest resizing sda3 to your desired swap partition size then formatting it as swap. And then resizing sda4 to grab what space is left over. Then your Suse partition will remain sda4. The problem here is that the standard filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 October 2006 07:07, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 07:47 schrieb ext Daniel Barkalow: You can't really do this in any straightforward way. Yes, he can. You know there are partitioning tools out there. The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 20 October 2006 07:47, Daniel Barkalow wrote: The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. You need to create a new filesystem in order to get a different size. Furthermore, partitions are addressed from the beginning, which means that moving the beginning will completely

[gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
This isn't exactly Gentoo-related, however, you guys tend to be the most command-line savvy group, and this is all about the command line at the moment... I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3 = linux-swap /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday 19 October 2006 7:02 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3 = linux-swap /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1) Where sda2 should be used to be and XFS partition for Kubuntu. My question is thus: how would I

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Joe Menola wrote: If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, Nope. Partitions below 5 are primary partitions. If you delete one of them, nothing changes. Perhaps I undertood OP incorrectly and he wants to move sda4 to sda3. pgpn3WP6kgH7c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/19/06, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Menola wrote: If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, Nope. Partitions below 5 are primary partitions. If you delete one of them, nothing changes. Perhaps I undertood OP incorrectly and he wants to move sda4 to sda3. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda4/ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda3swap swap defaults 0 0 ### bunch of free space /dev/sda1/media/sda1 ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Lord Sauron wrote: This isn't exactly Gentoo-related, however, you guys tend to be the most command-line savvy group, and this is all about the command line at the moment... I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3