On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tom Bernett wrote about, Resizing Disk Partitions.:
> Hi List;
>
> I'd like to increase the size of some of my linux partitions. I
> remember reading some cautions about changing linux partitions, but I
> didn't understand them at the time (even more of a newbie then!), and I
> can't find them now.
>
> I'm dual booting OS/2 and linux using OS/2 Boot Manager. Lilo is in the
> linux /. Here's what I have;
>
> hda2 /
> hda3 C: OS/2 hpfs
> hda4 OS/2 Boot Manager
> hda5 D: OS/2 hpfs
> hda6 /home
> hda7 /opt
> hda8 /usr
> hda9 linux swap
> Free Space - 5 Gig.
>
> I also have an empty 1.6 gig spare drive.
>
> I don't have to disturb the OS/2 or linux / partitions. All my changes
> will be in hda6 and up.
>
> Since I have a lot of space, can I just boot floppy and, one by one,
> create new linux partitions at the end of the drive, mkfs them, and
> transfer (cp or tar) each linux partition out until I have the
> arrangement I want?
>
Why boot with a floppy.? you dont need to reboot to change the partitions
providing they are empty and you are not going to touch any working
"mounted partitions".
Just use fdisk to remove the parttions then resize the piece of the disk
thats left over.
It might be advisable to reboot afterwards, but i dnt see any "critical"
need to.
after repartitioning and the possable reboot you can use mke2fs on each
partition to create the file system.
>
> My OS/2 stuff is backed up, but I can't back my linux stuff to tape. (I
> tried installing ftape (both tar.gz and rpm versions)but ran into
> problems. So I need a method which is pretty safe. Can I use the 1.6
> gig (hdb) to back up my linux stuff as insurance?
Sure why not, you can backup all your stuff.
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Tom (about a 9 out of 10 on the newbie scale)
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