On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:37, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:25:55AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: > > expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can > > stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat. > > There are several partition resizing tools available - some probably came > with your Linux distribution. They're normally used to shrink a partition > to put Linux onto the disk, but they can normally work the other way, too. >
Ok but using one of these resizing tools would leave a huge unformatted area in the partition which wont be read from or written to anyway. > > would is be easier to manually partition the 60gig disk, then use dd to > > copy the boot records from the 6gig to the 60gig, and again use dd to > > copy the contents of the partition from the 6gig disk to the 60gig disk? > > Maybe, although I sure as hell wouldn't be using dd to copy the contents of > the partition across. Use cp, cpio, or tar for that. Why wouldn't you use dd?? seemed to work fine for me. no lost files, no damage... > > - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
