Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > How does one merge two partitions on a single disk, > given the layout as shown below. > > /dev/hda1 /base ext3 8 GB > /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 256 MB > /dev/hda3 swap linux-swap 2047 MB > /dev/hda4 / reiserfs 9 GB > > The two partitions that i want to merge are > /dev/hda1 /base > and > /dev/hda4 / > > Any suggestions on how this can be accomplished ? > > > thanks > Saifi. > Merging two partitions is possible if you have a volume manager running and these partitions are in fact volumes.
Volumes need not be contiguous since the VM will take care of managing the space on the hard disk (or multiple disks). Namita
