LinHES Forums
http://forums.linhes.org/

Howto resize an Ext3 partition
http://forums.linhes.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1331		 Page 1 of 1
Author:  krypton_john [ Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Howto resize an Ext3 partition
Hi All,

I installed my MythTV test box with the auto-install option and default partition sizes. I'd like to resize the /myth partition (it used all the remaining space on the drive) to a smaller size so I can create a new partition at the end of the disk for either a ghost backup or dual boot reasons.

So, is it possible to resize the partition without losing the contents? How?

Cheers,
JohnO
Author:  pepe [ Tue May 11, 2004 9:06 am ]
Post subject: 
I tried to do this and failed, but maybe it will help you anyway. the "parted" program (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html ) claims to be able to resize ext3 partitions, so I grabbed it and tried:

# apt-get install parted

// this is from memory - don't have system here
# parted /dev/hda
(parted) print
// a list of partions similar to fdisk p
(parted) resize
(partition-number) 4
(start [old start]) // I just accept the old start
(end) -20000 // 20Gb(ish) from end of disk

but I got an error that my partition was "strange" or something similar. I had a workaround, and didn't think to write it down. sorry.

My /myth partition didn't have much in it yet, so I copied the data to /cache, deleted and re-created it smaller, and restored the data back in from /cache.
Author:  Xsecrets [ Tue May 11, 2004 3:46 pm ]
Post subject: 
parted should work, I think though that instead of doing -20000 and thinking it counts back from the end of the disk it would be +1000000 however big you want the partition to be.

There is a frontend qtparted that is nice, but I don't think it will install on knoppmyth because of dependacies, but I'm not sure about that.

or for that matter if you have a knoppix disk around you could boot off that and use qtparted. it's included with knoppix.
Page 1 of 1 All times are UTC - 6 hours
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group
http://www.phpbb.com/