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

Christian Barth barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Thu Mar 14 00:18:04 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.

Look for gnu parted (or it is called similar): It's a linux baesed 
partition tool under the gnu licences. It did a good job for us when 
partition magic refused to touch a win-TS partition

Christian


> Thanks
> 
> Ash
> 
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