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Szénási István wrote: |
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>> It should be mentioned that if you use this method then, after running |
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>> parted to resize the partition(s), you will also need to resize the |
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>> filesystem(s) on the partition(s). |
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> If I remember correctly, you're right and the resize of he filesystem required. |
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> Of course if you shrink the partition, first you need to resize the |
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> file system before the |
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> resizing of the partition and if you grow the partition, first you |
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> need to resize the partition |
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> before the resizing the file system. (Maybe, you should turn off the |
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> journalling when you |
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> modify an ext3 file system, but i am not sure in it) |
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>> This is well documented - google "resize ext3" or whatever. Not sure if this |
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>> is necessary using GParted - probably not. |
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> I strongly recommend the gparted, I have resized and moved partitions |
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> (ext2, ext3 and ntfs) with it, |
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> and i never had problem with it. It hase a nice GUI and it does every |
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> necessary steps automatically. :-) |
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I did this the other day for an experiment. I used a spare partition, |
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and of course the partition concerned was unmounted: |
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dd if=/dev/sda4 of=backup.iso |
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then I did: |
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dd if=backup.iso of=/dev/sda3 |
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I also have done a complete backup using tar to save some space. |
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tar cvfj backup.tar.bz2 /dev/sda4 |
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when I decompress, I imagine I will mount the partition say /dev/sda3 |
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and do the following |
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tar xvvf backup.tar.bz2 |
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(This might be not accurate, but I hope it gives you a fair idea of |
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where to start) |
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