Hi
If I remember correctly, somewhere old slackware fdisk docu. said, that
if you know the cylinders of your partition right, then you can recover
your partition correctly, by setting those cylinder no.s to new partition.
Can this idea be applied to extend new partitions? I mean if the space is
adjascent(Sorry if misspelled..)
Bye
Shridhar
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
> I'm afraid ext2fs doesn't allow expanding the size of an existing
> partition. What you could do is to format the new partition and may be
> move your /var (or /usr) directory tree to the new one. (Copy the
> existing /var partition to the new partition by mounting it as say
> /mnt/var - then delete the /var partition, and make entries in fstab so
> that the new partition is mounted as /var in the next reboot.)
>
> Kala
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