[GRLUG] Resizing partitions

[Michael Mol]

You can resize ext3 with qtparted as long as you remove a few features
of the filesystem (like, all of them), and--here's the kicker--the
beginning of the filesystem doesn't move.  So if the ext3 filesystems
aren't at the beginning of the disk, your only option is to completely
repartition and reformat.

Which isn't so bad...once you've got an idea of how you use your disk,
it makes sense to divvy up the partitions in a sensical manner.

Me, I have an internal drive which serves as my /, swap, etc., while a
huge external drive serves as my /home.

On 3/26/07, Justin Popa <tehpopa at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is extremely interesting given we're both gmail-gmail... but here is my
> response again:
>
> Yeah, I've fixed that. Borrowed an unused NAS device from work and scooped
> it all off. I'm now faced with my PC's 200gig boot drive. 160Gb was for
> windows because I never thought I'd actually full out switch. 1Gb for swap,
> and 28Gb for my linux install. And that's the way they are partitioned on
> this disk. My goal is to absolutely blow away the 160 and the swap. Then at
> the beginning of the disk add a 1Gb swap, and stretch the 28Gb partition
> through the newly created void. I've done this before with windows using
> Partition Magic, and all went well. But I know when I do this my swap will
> become(guessing) hde1, then the rest hde2, causing the need to redo
> /etc/fstab after the repartition via a live disk. I think. I could just be
> making all this up :p
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