you could try "gnu parted" it can resize ext2 partitions... ...but I
warn you that you are doing very dangerous things for the health of your
hard disk and i would advise you to backup everything precious before
trying these tricks
Cheerio
Robin
jayant kumar wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I want to partition my Hdd to get some space for installing SUSE.
> My Hdd presently has the following partitions
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2096 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 4 524 4184901 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 525 2096 12627090 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda3 1 3 24066 83 Linux
> /dev/hda5 525 1043 4168836 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6 1044 1562 4168836 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7 1563 1578 128488+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda8 1579 2096 4160803+ 83 Linux
>
> I want to decrease the size of hda6 to 2.5 GB. The rest I want to use to
> install SUSE
>
> I do not want to destroy the data which is there in hda6. I know that
> partition magic would do the job - but partition magic 3.0 which I have
> does not support such large Hdd. It gives an error - partition table not found.
>
> I thought of trying fips - but fips does not change partitions in extended
> partition.
>
> Can anyone guide me as to what to do - how to reduce my hda6 partition
> without destroying data.
>
> Presntly i m using RED HAT 6.2. If i install SUSE will it replace my kernel
> in the /boot partition ? If yes how can I prevent this and also make both
> SUSE & RH work.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --------Jayant
>
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