[Samba] Need util to resize parition (Off Topic)

Ash Ridley ash.ridley at ash-ridley.net
Wed Mar 13 13:27:03 GMT 2002


Hi all,

Sorry to post OT but I'm a bit stuck and I thought someone may know the
answer.

Originally I installed Red Hat 5.2 with 2 paritions, boot and root. I
upgraded to Red Hat 6 (kept the original filesystem) without a problem
some time ago, but now I want to upgrade to 7.2. When trying to install
the upgrade it tells me that the boot parition isnt big enough (by about
90k!) so I thought "Easy I'll use partition magic for DOS from a boot
floppy and move some space from root to boot" (theres plenty spare).
Only problem is my partition magic (v4) wont allow me to modify the
linux partions (don't know if it's a limitation with the DOS version or
just version 4).

So my question is, can I move space between the 2 partitions and what
util will let me do it (preferably free but if I have to buy something
I'd rather do that than reinstall). Maybe I should mention that the 2
Linux paritions are the only paritions on the system.

Thanks

Ash




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