Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Leigh Stewart wrote: > does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and > swap partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside > a single primary partition? That should work. You could even make all three partitions logical ones, Linux has no problem with that. You di

[gentoo-user] partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Leigh Stewart
I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat unnerving experience because in order to resize using cfdisk u have to delete then recreate