Aaron Toponce <[email protected]> writes: > 6) Shrink the partition of /dev/sda5 using fdisk(8) or parted(8)
I've run into trouble at this step: when I try to resize the partition with parted, it complains that it "could not detect file system," and refuses to do touch the disk. fdisk does not seem to be able to resize partitions, so I tried cfdisk, which quit as soon as I ran it on /dev/sda1 with the "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder. I have not touched the partition table and can still boot into my system, so the disk appears to be just fine, and the partition table was set up by the Debian (squeeze) installer and has not been touched since, so I don't know what cfdisk is on about. Here's the partition table of sda... # fdisk -cu /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0002f08e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux /dev/sda2 501758 625141759 312320001 5 Extended /dev/sda5 501760 625141759 312320000 83 Linux How should I proceed from here? --Aidan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
