On Saturday 30 June 2001 05:46, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:41, Kevin Fonner wrote:
> > I can't seem to move or resize my "/" drive. Will I have to
> > create some special boot disk to do this or something or is their
> > a way to do it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
>
> A partition cannot be resized without being unmounted (unless it's
> LVM). "/" can never be unmounted, since it is the core of your
> filesystem. You will need to either chroot to another "/" point or
> (the easy way) you can reboot with a boot disc (floppy or CD) as
> "/" and resize an unmounted partition.
>
Ummm, so I thought, too, until I stumbled over this:
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/online-ext2/
It seems Andreas Dilger has something interesting in
ext2online, a program that patches ext2resize for growing ext2
partitions _while_mounted_. Don't know yet how useful it is, but I
should in a few hours.
Civileme
Civileme
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers
> >
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> > > Disk Drake is included with Mandrake (at least 7.2, I would
> > > assume 8.0 as well).
> > >
> > > On Friday 29 June 2001 18:47, thus spake Kevin Fonner:
> > > > > Are their any partition resizers that are made to run on
> > > > > Linux?
> > > >
> > > > Kevin
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> > > "Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit." (No
> > > fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.)
> > > - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
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> Not true! Nobody (not even Billy) can buy the GPL "fortification"
> and its prized produce (like GNU/Linux)! Of course, the Romans
> didn't have the Internet :-)
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