On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Nasser Hasian wrote:
> I dont know if anyone brought up this before, but I need to give my fat32
> partition more drive space from my ext2 partition. anyway I can do this
> without losing the data? Or do I have to lose it all?!? I couldn't find a
> howto on it...
AFAIK there is no fips-like program for ext2. So you'll lose
whatever data you have on the ext2 partition you want to modify. It's
worse, if you put all Linux on one partition. From here is almost no
exit. Maybe if you have some form of large backup media like tape. Here
you can backup the entire filesystem, repartition, use the boot/root
floppies to launch Linux, and restore the filesystem. If you are a newbie
my only advice will be don't do this.
One chance is if you made a large swap partition. You can delete
and resize the swap partition, or even lose it and use a swap file.
> btw, this is on hdb1 is my linux ext2 partition and hdb2 is fat32.
If your swap partition is hdb3 or hdb5 the second might work. If
I remeber well a partition has to be contiguous.
Raider
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``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
