I used to run my system from a 120 GB drive. The drive is partitioned as follows:
partition size type filesystem --------- ---- ---- ---------- /dev/hda1 16M primary ext2 /dev/hda2 3.7G primary ext3 /dev/hda3 1.5G primary Linux swap /dev/hda4 (extended) /dev/hda5 3.7G logical ext3 /dev/hda6 3.7G logical ext3 /dev/hda7 15G logical ext3 /dev/hda8 28G logical ext3 /dev/hda9 28G logical ext3 /dev/hda10 28G logical ext3 Now I no longer need partitions 1 through 7. I'd like to roll them up into one partition, or even better, add them to partition 7 (so I'd have four, roughtly equally-sized partitions). That in mind, I do NOT want to lose the data on partitions 8, 9, and 10. Will the available partioning tools (e.g. GNU parted) allow me to do this safely? If so, would it take a long time? I have another 120 GB drive in a second computer; I could just use rsync to make a backup of everything, then go to work with fdisk if that would be safer and/or faster. Thanks for any thoughts! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
