At 07:25 morn 9/20/02 +0530, NJ wrote:
>i wud like to resize / to make room for Dos.
>is this possible?
>
>theres a tool called resize2fs , but havent used it i guess u gotta b
>really careful with tools like this ...
>
>Can ny1 guide pls?
ummm...
till date I have only used fdisk which does anything. But you seem not to
have any free space. So the only way to create a new partition is to
divide an existing one. i.e. delete and then create 2 in place of the
deleted one.
Now the following method I propose is fraught with danger :D, but I have
split a FAT partition with it once. Hopefully it will work on a ext[2/3]
partition. But you simply *MUST* backup important files.
It is really simple actually.
#1. Make sure you have the latest stable release of fdisk.
#2. Defrag the HDD (I used the norton scandisk as the partition I split
was a dos one)
#3. Delete the BIG partition
#4. First recreate the partition you deleted - but without the bottom few
cylinders required
for the Dos partition.
#5. Then create the Dos partition.
Also, you can do ASM/DOS with a ~5-10Mb partition. So you may consider
splitting your /boot or swap partitions if they have the space to spare.
hth,
quasi
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