On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:08:56PM +0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > The unit G is 10^9, that is, 1k=1000 and not 1024. > After the filesystem is resized, we can physically > shrink the partition to 20G, by using linux fdisk. > We can give the same starting track number to fdisk, > namely track #1, and when prompted for ending track > number, do we give +20000M, or do we give some > smaller value? I believe that for fdisk 1k=1024. > My arithmetic is rusty, so take out your calculators > and help me please. Thanks.
Doc, I think you can do this more easily and more safely by giving absolute starting and ending cylinder numbers, rather than hit and miss with the relative sizes in megabytes or gigabytes. As usual it's always better to err on the side of caution and waste a few cylinders rather than lose valuable data (I do hope that the important contents of your disk exist somewhere else...). Your disk's full geometry would be a real big help here. :) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
