someone please correct me if am way off the mark... [i think you might have misquoted 3.5 gb (there's 4.5 gb of free space...) but then you might want to leave some free space there... ok no probs..]
i doubt that you could take that try (that you talk about) especially with critical data. 1. the only solution to resizing i heard was 'parted', but that works only on ext2/fatxx but not on ext3 (i mean you could try tune2fs again but i'd rather bet on the sun falling... ) and moreover you need to have concurrent space for that kind of extensions. you could do "moving" the whole partitions and resizing them and copying dumpb to dumpa and then move them back, but then again, firstly, you need spare space on the "same" drive and of course its better to bet on the sun falling...! 2. the other solution is ofcourse lvm or raid0 but then of course you need to start from scratch, your data is to be at least temporarily to be transferred out... (right? anyone?) note: i dont think the sector sizes being different matter, because they cant merge anyways, (because of the fact that they are different filesystems). the physical characteristics of discs dont matter anyways... as always, any point above could be completely wrong, and therefore will gladly want to know the mistakes then. if i respond as if i speak to someone in class 3rd, sorry again, just being courteous! and if someone feels i just spoke french, probably that friend at Alliance-Francaise.. is helping it seems!! ;) affly robins On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 11:34, Arjun Asthana wrote: > Hi, > Can I merge an existing GNU/Linux partition with 3.5 gb of free space on > another drive? Both of the drives have important data, so, I would not like > to take risks. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
