merge ext3 partitions/fs

symbiote · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 7:38 pm Post subject: merge ext3 partitions/fs

i have hda5 and hda7; hda5 has 11gig and hda7 has 9.2gig.. i've decided not to separate both. is there a way to merge these two without losing data?

lx · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 11:08 pm Post subject:

these are probably not adjecent (hda6 in between), so you can't merge them cause the partitions are physically apart, if you have the room, you should mv all data recreate partitions etc etc, but well you probably won't want that,

Cya lX.
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symbiote · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:07 am Post subject:

yeah, i got hda6 in between which is /usr. i tried to play with parted to see if i could, and well, i can't.

heh. oh well. time to save up for an 80gig.

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 3:10 am Post subject:

Even if they were adjacent, I don't think you could merge them without loosing all the data. You'd need to destroy both partitions and then make a new partition with a new file system.

Maybe you could do it if you had ELVM or VLM in first place, but this is another story.