On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> 
> BTW, is there any way to set size of partition? Even though this is an
> afterthought. Yesterday, on my company machine, I split my home partition in
> two. 

how did you do that? I have heard a lot of praise for gnuparted, but
havent used it myself.


>For sharing with NT. When I just remounted reduced home partition, it
just
> worked fine but on next boot linux refused to boot saying partition block count
> does not match with actual block count. 

does this mean that whatever method you used did not update the partition
table ? Did you try commenting out the offending partition in
fstab ( boot floppy ;) and  make another try. 
  

>I did mkfs on it and lost all my data.
> Anyway I didn't have much. I think I should have used ext2resize or ext2ed. Any
> comments?
                           sreangsu


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