On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:53:50PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote:
> How about booting from other Linux (such as Live cd or diskette or
> something) and using the available tools such as - parted to resize /
>
> :)
>
The way I did it is:
1. Get the parted source (1.6) and follow the compiling part of the
info pages in order to get a static executable that can be copied to
a floppy.
2. Run Debian's installer boot + root floppies just to get a suitable
working environment.
3. As soon as I have configured the keyboard in the installation
process I opened the 2nd vt, mounted the parted floppy from 1 and
resized the partition.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arie Folger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Linux-IL mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:43 PM
> Subject: resizing /
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to grow the / partition. When I wanted to resize partitions in the
> past
> > (which did happen a number of times to /usr and /home as I weaned myself
> from
> > windows and the available tools grew by leaps and bounds), I just copied
> the
> > content of the partition, using cp -a, to a directory on another partition
> (I
> > may have used tar zcf if I only had space on a vfat partition), destroyed
> the
> > partition, recreated it with more sectors (typically the new secttors came
> > from another partition that moved after eating some vfat for breakfast
> ;-)),
> > and finally copied the contents back to the new partition.
> >
> > This is obviously inappropriate for /, because I can't unmount /. I tried
> to
> > use ext2fsadm, but it wants a file created by vgscan. I read the docs, and
> > they require me to create logical volumes with vgcreate. At this point I
> am
> > slowly getting lost, so does anybody have quick instructions on this one?
> >
> > I am using a RH8.0 on a amd k2-550, and my drive is (from dmesg):
> > hda: FUJITSU MHK2120AT, ATA DISK drive
> > hda: 23579136 sectors (12073 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1467/255/63, UDMA(33)
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Arie Folger
> > --
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> > who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
> > he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
> > -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
> >
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