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On Thursday 30 July 2009 17:45:30 Grant wrote: |
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> >> Sounds good. Will commenting the swap line out of /etc/fstab and |
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> >> rebooting disable swap? |
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> > Yes. Or, temporarily, the 'swapoff' command. |
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> >> In order to resize the root partition to |
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> >> include the swap paritition, I'll have to boot to LiveCD right? |
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> > I think it might work without. If you have hda1=boot, hda2=root, |
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> > hda3=swap, you could delete hda3 and hda2 with [c]fdisk and make hda2 the |
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> > size of hda2+hda3, then use resize2fs to increase the size of hda2. |
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> > Increasing a file system's size works online nowadays. I don't think it |
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> > would work with hda2=swap and hda3=root, but I'm not sure. |
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> Thanks everyone. |
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> I have sda1=boot, sda2=swap, sda3=root. Does anyone know if I'm |
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> required to use a LiveCD in this case? |
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Not only do you need a LiveCD, you need a backup and restore of your root |
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partition. If you try and resize it from the front, you WILL LOSE THE |
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FILESYSTEM ON IT. |
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Do this: |
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1. Backup / |
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2. Delete sda2 and sda3 |
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3. Create a new sda2 the full size of the old sda2 and sda3 combined |
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4. Reorder partition table in fdsisk. |
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5. Fix entries in fstab from sda3 and higher. |
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6. REBOOT into LiveCD (or run partprobe if you aware of the effects) |
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7. mkfs sda2 |
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8. Restore / |
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9. Reboot into main system |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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