On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:09, Rob Wood wrote: > Thanks for all the replies on this. > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > All the *fdisk family of programs _only_ change the entry in the > > partition table, and don't even attempt to preserve the data. So the > > answer is NO!!! > > > > You do not mention the kind of filesystem in the partition. > > There are some partition size-changing tools which work well some of the > > time, but not always, and never without the risk of losing the lot > > because the power-supply failed. So, What filesystem is it? > > C. S. > > The partitions are a FAT32 and a Reiserfs. I need to adjust the sizes of > the partitions. It sounds like it's going to be too dodgy as I can't > risk losing any data on this setup. I have a spare hard drive so I think > I'll fit that and work around it somehow. In that case install the spare disk and copy the contents of the partitions to it as .tar or .cpio files. Re-size the partitions as required using one of the *fdisk utilities. Recreate the filesystems and restore the contents. Simple, safe, and avoids the risky performance of partition resizing with data in place. If the data is really that precious you should really have a normal backup regime for it. You have haven't you?
-- C. S.
