Hi,
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:51:04PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I first partitioned the disk I am using, I gave to /dev/hda1 500 mbytes,
> and the rest I put in an partition, in which I have several OS'es. Now I
> decided to change the size of /dev/hda1 (I can delete /dev/hda5), is there a
> way to change the size of this partition without up my hd recognition nor
> formating?
You can try parted.
I didn't, yet. For shrinking FAT only, fips is far older, probably more
tested, and I used it tens of times.
I know people that used PartitionMagic happily, but it's not free and
doesn't run on Linux, so it's not good enough for me (and parted is
very close to it now, feature-wise).
>
> My current layout is:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 66 530113+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 67 3321 26145787+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 67 704 5124703+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6 705 1342 5124703+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda7 1343 1980 5124703+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda8 1981 2662 5478133+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 2663 2712 401562 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda10 2713 2713 8001 83 Linux
> /dev/hda11 2714 3321 4883728+ 83 Linux
>
> Is it safe to just change the values of /dev/hda2+/dev/hda5 (s=704) and
> /dev/hda2(e=703)etc?
It's safe, but it will not grow your filesystem. It could be used
as a primitive way to hide things on your disk, though.
>
> Is there a better way? (I will back up what's important, don't worry)
That's the best thing to do. After that - play and tell us your story,
if it was interesting.
>
> - diego
>
> -- Be self-reliant and your success is assured.
>
>
>
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