On Thu, 29 May 2003, Andrew Mathews wrote: > Net Llama! wrote: > | I've painted myself into a corner where i need/want to turn a Linux only > | box into a dual boot box with Win2k. Right now, the box (which is a > | laptop) has just RH9 (XFS) installed, and occupying the entire disk as > | follows: > | hda1 /boot > | hda2 SWAP > | hda3 / > | > | What I need to do is resize hda3 so that its about 5 GB smaller, so that i > | can create a hda4 to install Win2k on. The problem here is that > | xfs_growfs doesn't appear to support shrinking partitions, just growing > | them. Is shrinking an XFS partition even possible? If so, how? > | > > Nope. It's a one way street, as is LVM. AFAIK, no filesystem supports > shrinking, at least I haven't found a way with AIX, Solaris, IRIX, or > any others. The easiest way is to xfsdump the mountpoint, drop it and > recreate it with the size required, and xfsrestore the data. You can do > this with the installer iso by entering rescue mode, mounting /dev/hda3 > as a temporary mountpoint and chrooting to the mountpoint. A tape drive > would be handy for this as you won't be able to mount anything via nfs > since networking won't be available. You'll also need to do this after
Couldn't i use Knoppix for this so that i'd have networking? > installing Windows to be able to rerun lilo, otherwise Win will be the > only thing that's bootable. Also see: > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#resizexfspartition ugh. oh well, i guess i'll give it a whirl. thanks. Anyone know if Win2k has any ridiculous need to be on hda1, or will it be ok sitting on hda4? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
