On Saturday 10 March 2007 20:39, Alex Mandel wrote: > What I have(partitions): > P1: NTFS(Windows) > P2: Ext3(/) > P3: Fat32 > > What I want to do: > Make P1 smaller > Make P2 larger > > Questions: > As long as I turn off journaling on my ext3(make it ext2) then I > should be able to resize it, even if that means adding to the front > end of the partition?
Would be nice. I've resized a few ext2 partitions, but haven't found any way to move the front of the partion, short of nuking the partition completely and restoring from a backup. If you've got enough free space on the drive, you could set up a temporary partition elsewhere and just copy all of the stuff. I've done this a couple times when I've decided to resize partitions on my laptop while commuting to school. (Resizing partitions while commuting is living dangerously, but I know that my documents are safely in Subversion if anything goes wrong, and I know that I can always find a CD and start from scratch when I reach school if something goes wrong.) > I'm not worried about resizing the NTFS, that's how I got linux onto > this machine to begin with. > > Do I need to have free space in order to perform operations like this > other than the space that is obviously being shifted? Only if you take my "move stuff to another partition" strategy. > I'm going to backup /etc, /home but how do I backup a list of all > installed software so that if something goes wrong and I want to get > back to what I have without remembering every package I've ever > added. Preferably some automatic list that I could re-apt > -An alternate use to this idea that I've been thinking about, if I > change computers and want to bring a new machine up to the same set > of software fast I would need some list that apt can run through. WARNING: UNTESTED I use $ aptitude search -F '%100p' '~i!~M' > thefile to backup my package list I've never tried restoring this way, but I would use # xargs aptitude install --schedule-only < thefile # aptitude install to restore. The advantage of doing it this way would be to have aptitude remember which packages were manually installed and which were automatically installed as dependancies after the reinstall. I have used Henry House's instructions, and I know that his instructions work. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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