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 Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 4:32 am Post subject: Resizing Boot and swap partitions....... |
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| I was wondering if doing this would cause any problems that could not be fixed. I was thinking that I could just move my boot partition files to another partition and delete the boot partition and recreate it to be a different size. Then transfer the datea back nice and neat. With the swap file it would not need to be backed up obviously but the same question remains. Although I will be adding the swap back, just resized, would that cause any problems? Thanks for any help. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Resizing Boot and swap partitions....... |
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| FINITE wrote: | | I was wondering if doing this would cause any problems that could not be fixed. I was thinking that I could just move my boot partition files to another partition and delete the boot partition and recreate it to be a different size. |
That should work fine, but make sure you update grub to point to the new /boot partition if you have to reboot during this process.
| FINITE wrote: | | With the swap file it would not need to be backed up obviously but the same question remains. |
Why resize the partition at all? Just add a second swap partition.
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I have a problem like this.
My /dev/hda1 is mounted on /boot.
When i run "mount" i get that /dev/hda1 is vfat so i want to backup my /boot then format /dev/hda1 then re-run grub.
Is it ok?
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| pacman wrote: | I have a problem like this.
My /dev/hda1 is mounted on /boot.
When i run "mount" i get that /dev/hda1 is vfat so i want to backup my /boot then format /dev/hda1 then re-run grub.
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If you can do this all without rebooting, then sure. Otherwise, you need to have a /boot partition. (or use the boot CD, boot floppy, etc.)
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why should i reboot? it's not windows right?
Just backup the part, run mk2fs -j /dev/hda1, then run grub and restore the menu.lst from backup.
Isn't?
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yes -- just pointing out that if, for whatever reason, you do end up rebooting, (power failure, etc.) you won't be able to. Just make sure to have a plan B in case something goes wrong.
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| Quote: | yes -- just pointing out that if, for whatever reason, you do end up rebooting, (power failure, etc.) you won't be able to. Just make sure to have a plan B in case something goes wrong.
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Yes SIR, you're completely right.
Thanks for your time.
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Cool. And if you did end up having to reboot then using the gentoo cd would be a plan b. The reason I need to do this is because my boot and swap are entierly to big, talking 1 gig each (or really close). Didn't know what I was doing with fdisk at the time  Thanks. |
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