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kybber
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Joined: 25 Jun 2002
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Location: Trondheim, Norway
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 Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 9:59 am Post subject: Resizing partition |
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I'm trying to resize my linux root partition with Partitionmagic 7.0. Apparently PM 7.0 does not support Ext3 filesystems. After a quick check on the web I found and issued the following commands to demote my root partition to Ext2 and check the partition:
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tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda6
e2fsck -f /dev/hda6
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Unfortunately PM 7.0 still does not recognize the filesystem. I am certain it recognizes "vanilla" ext2 since it allows me to modify my boot-partition.
Does anyone know how I can convert my root to real ext2 (or some other way to solve my problem)? |
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ElCondor
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Joined: 10 Apr 2002
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Location: Vienna, Austria, Europe
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 11:43 am Post subject: |
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You're running linux. why not using linux tools? 
| Quote: | parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing pro-
gram. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and
copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT and FAT32 partitions.
This is useful for creating space for new operating sys-
tems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new
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kybber
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Location: Trondheim, Norway
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Aye, I did emerge parted, but it scared me a bit... 
It required me to give the start and stop position of the partition in megabytes, and I didn't want to risk snapping parts off my NTFS partition on hda1... Maybe I just didn't look close enough, but when it comes do partitioning and such then I really want to be on the safe side - I have never had any problems with Partitionmagic and I've been using it relatively frequently for 7-8 years now.
Anyway, I solved the problem: Ghosted the root partition to image. Then deleted the old partition and added a new larger one using (linux) fdisk. Ghost back. Check filesystem. All ok 
Not very elegant, but at least it worked |
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