Sorry, my memory fails. After entering fdisk, I find free disk space is just before /dev/sda2, not after it.
It seems that I can't resize it. Thanks anyway! --- Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > My sarge is installed at /dev/sda2. There is some disk space just behind > > /dev/sda2. > > Can I let sarge use that space by resizing /dev/sda2? > > Yes you can! Just use fdisk to delete /dev/sda2 and rectreate it with > the same starting point and the new size (that includes the free space) > Then use resize2fs to resize the filesystem to the new size. You might > also want to look into gparted, as it has a very nice gui that is a lot > less intimidating than fdisk. You can even boot off a gparted livecd and > fix your partition. > > > Saving data and reformatting /dev/sda2 and reinstalling sarge takes too > > much time. > > Even though gparted and the fdisk method have never failed on me, I > usually backup my most critical data when I muck around with the > partitioning. If you have enough space on another disk or on a remote > machine, you might want to consider clonezilla-live take a backup. It > uses partimage and is much faster than cp, tar, rsync or dd. > > You can find gparted and clonezilla live cds at > [gparted|clonezilla].sourceforge.net (a multi boot cd offering both is > also available) > > -- > Raj Kiran Grandhi > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
