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On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 14:54 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> Hi, I need a quick help for a simple question. |
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> My disk now looks like this: |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/hda1 11G 9.2G 1.4G 88% / |
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> udev 264M 242k 264M 1% /dev |
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> /dev/hda4 4.9G 4.6G 329M 94% /home |
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> /dev/hda5 25G 21G 3.9G 85% /mnt/share |
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> none 264M 0 264M 0% /dev/shm |
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Please post the output of 'fdisk -l' run as root. Without this info it's |
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not really possible to give you a full answer, but I'll still try. |
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> where hda5 is an extended part located after hda1 and before swap. At |
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> the ends is hda4. |
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Hmmmm, you want ot re-order those partitions so their number follows the |
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location on-disk. |
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> All parts are reiserfs unless hda5 which is FAT and I want to get rid of it. |
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> So what I want to do is to increase the size of hda1 and move some |
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> things around. |
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> I plan to remove the extended partition, thereby creating space right |
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> after hda1 so that this one can be increased. Then I intend to create |
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> a new swap part of 1Gb right after the new hda1 and use the remaining |
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> space for /home. |
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No no no no no you do not want to do this. |
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Without an extended partition you will limit yourself to 4 partitions |
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total and it is a nightmare to get it back to having an extended |
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partition. Leave it as is, it does no harm and as far as you the user |
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are concerned you end up with up to 16 (maybe 64) partitions max. |
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> So my question is, can I do all this using QTParted? And in a normal |
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> session, without unmouting any partitions, or do I need to boot from a |
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> install-cd? |
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You do this on the command line with tools like fdisk. QTParted may or |
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may not be able to do it, I always had uncertain results and have |
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learned to not trust such gui tools. |
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alan |
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