Dwayne, Don't you mean fdisk and not fsck? "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > Okay. Here's what you do: > > 1. Start up fsck, and shrink the partition you want to shrink, but DO NOT ^^^^ > SAVE THE PARTITION TABLE, just look at the size you get, and write it > down. > > 2. Make sure the filesystem is at least mounted read-only, preferrably not > mounted at all. > > 3. Run ext2resize /dev/whatever <the size from step 1> > > 4. run fsck again and do like step #1, but actually save it this time ^^^^ > > 5. Reboot. > > 6. Do what you want with the extra free space. > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:20:43PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:52:59PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > > If you need to look at splitting an ext2 partition. Have a look at > > > ext2resize. It seems to work for me, but MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR > > > FILESYSTEM MOUNTED READ-WRITE, OR IT WILL GET CORRUPTED IRREVOCABLY. > > > > > Could you explain how to reclaim that space. I semi-successfully used > > ext2resize in the past, but I couldn't get the changed partition size > > correctly reflected in my partition table. The instructions were a > > little negligent on this part. I ended up repartitioning and > > reinstalling after f**ing up my partion table and filesystem. Kinda > > defeated the whole exercise. > > -- > "I already have all the latest software." > -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" > > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm > GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc > Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
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