On Sunday 08 February 2004 01:45 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: > Marc Resnick wrote: > > Ron, > > The problem is that I can't resize the Ext2 Partition with PM, and don't > > know why. If I click Info, it says that it's an unrecognized format. What > > I was able to do, I did. I freed some hard drive space by resizing the > > Windows Partition, and moved in into the Extended Partition. Within the > > Extended Partition I have two Linux Ext2 Partitions(I don't know why > > there's two, if you could explain, that would be great), one is about 5 > > gb and one is about 4. There is also a Linux Swap Partition(I also do not > > know what that is for), and now there is 3 gb of unallocated space too. I > > am able to resize the unallocated space and the swap partition, but not > > the two Ext2s. > > > > If the case is that I must use Linux to resize the partition, kindly > > explain it to me as if I was 13 years old going on 14. > > > > --Thanks > > Marc > > Yes, I have had this problem with PM. Like anything wrong with the > partition tables, it is serious, and PM provides no help whatsoever. > The PM 5 that I have does have a partition table editor, but it predates > very large disks and has not been updated. Don't touch it! > > Copy all your valuable partition data across to another hard disk, which > you might have to buy. At that point if you set up the new with > Partition Magic exactly the same as the old, you should be home and > hosed and can proceed to do the resizing. > > Here's a tip: You can then delete all the partitions on the original > hard disk to recover it. If there are difficulties, do a google search > for XOSL, which is a very good boot loader. Download it, make a floppy, > and install XOSL. Reboot and when XOSL comes up, do a ^P. This will > give you the Ranish Partition Manager. Ranish will mark in red for > you all the problems it finds with your partition tables and allow you > to delete partitions and the special cylinder before each logical > partition, until no red remains. You then have a good disk. > Unfortunately, Ranish pre-dates the availability of very large disks and > may not deal with them correctly, but you are still better off than not > having it. > > Ranish may be available directly - try a google search on 'Ranish'? > Yes, download part240.zip > > An operating Linux partition requires a swap partition, but if you have > more than 1 Linux OS partition, they can all share the one swap partition.
Ron, Why is this so serious? I have had no problems. I just needed more space. And even if I do this, how will I know that I will not just have the same problem as I did? I do have an external hard drive lying around somewhere, but I just know that if I try this, some problem will occur. Also, If I do decide to follow these instructions, will Linux boot just as it did? I have enough space to copy over the whole partition, but when I copy it back over to the newly created partition, what will I need to do to boot linux? I cannot create a boot disk because I have no floppy drive on this notebook. Also, I have the newest edition of PM. Is there any way to fix the problem with it?
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