The only safe way to resize a partition is to save it to some backup
with tar or cpio or so, delete and recreate it with the new size, and
restore from the backup. You can however, shrink your fat partition
with fips, and make a new linux partition, and move one or more of your
large directories to it with tar or cpio or so, then remove them from /.
/usr is a popular directory to move off, then you can simply change
/etc/fstab to mount the new partition on /usr.
Lawson
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, J M Albores wrote:
> I'm actually using the following partition scheme:
>
> /dev/hda1 -> Windoze '98 -> 2 Gb. size
> /dev/hda2 -> Linux Swap -> 64 Mb. size
> /dev/hda3 -> Linux Native -> 1 Gb. size
>
> I know "fips" and "Partition Magic" are useful for non-destructive
> partitioning of just ONE hard drive with only Windoze installed.
> But...
> Can I RESIZE (under my actual partition table) my partitions, giving
> more room (for example 2 Gb. to Linux and 1 Gb to Windoze) without
> loosing any data??
> And in case the answer is yes:
> Which is the software that would let me do it?
> TIA!
>
> --
> J. M. Albores
>
>
>
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