Re: resize the partition with /
On 10/1/07, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. If a couple of reboots is ok for you, the following method might work. Yes, and thanks a lot for the instruction. You can use 'dd' to clone hda2 to hda1. Boot your system with init=/bin/bash. When you get to the bash prompt, do bash# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda1 When that completes, you would have your installation available on both the partitions. The 5GB hda1 would contain a filesystem that is only 1GB large. Restart your system. You would boot normally with a 1GB root. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry for the linux on hda1. set root to (hd0,0) and append root=/dev/hda1 for the kernel line of the new entry. mkdir /tmp/newroot; mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/newroot Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions. So I got two grub/menu.lst, but how grub knows which one to read (one is hda1 and one is hda2)? Once you have satisfied yourself that both are working, boot into your 1GB partition, and resize hda1. The command resize2fs /dev/hda1 should be sufficient. Restart into the 5GB parition and now you would have a 5GB root with over 4GB free space. Run grub-install /dev/hda so that grub can load itself from the new location. You can now copy over your home directory from the 1GB partition and continue using hda1. If you wish you format hda2 and mount it as /home. Feel free to post any problems you may have and make sure you take a backup of important files before proceeding. Finally I followed your instruction and now I got what I wanted. Really thanks a lot and hopefully this can help others too. (not to mention I learned a lot!) :) Manu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
Manu Hack wrote: If a couple of reboots is ok for you, the following method might work. Yes, and thanks a lot for the instruction. You can use 'dd' to clone hda2 to hda1. Boot your system with init=/bin/bash. When you get to the bash prompt, do bash# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda1 When that completes, you would have your installation available on both the partitions. The 5GB hda1 would contain a filesystem that is only 1GB large. Restart your system. You would boot normally with a 1GB root. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry for the linux on hda1. set root to (hd0,0) and append root=/dev/hda1 for the kernel line of the new entry. mkdir /tmp/newroot; mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/newroot Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions. So I got two grub/menu.lst, but how grub knows which one to read (one is hda1 and one is hda2)? Grub will read the menu.lst from the partition that contained /boot/grub/menu.lst when grub-install was run. Feel free to post any problems you may have and make sure you take a backup of important files before proceeding. Finally I followed your instruction and now I got what I wanted. Really thanks a lot and hopefully this can help others too. (not to mention I learned a lot!) :) This is one important reason why I am in love with linux. :) A little curiosity and it lets you learn everything you care about hardware/software. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
On 10/4/07, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manu Hack wrote: If a couple of reboots is ok for you, the following method might work. Yes, and thanks a lot for the instruction. You can use 'dd' to clone hda2 to hda1. Boot your system with init=/bin/bash. When you get to the bash prompt, do bash# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda1 When that completes, you would have your installation available on both the partitions. The 5GB hda1 would contain a filesystem that is only 1GB large. Restart your system. You would boot normally with a 1GB root. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry for the linux on hda1. set root to (hd0,0) and append root=/dev/hda1 for the kernel line of the new entry. mkdir /tmp/newroot; mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/newroot Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions. So I got two grub/menu.lst, but how grub knows which one to read (one is hda1 and one is hda2)? Grub will read the menu.lst from the partition that contained /boot/grub/menu.lst when grub-install was run. So if I want grub to read the menu.lst from hda1, I should boot in using hda1 and run grub-install /dev/hda1 and then supposedly I can use hda2 for other storage? Feel free to post any problems you may have and make sure you take a backup of important files before proceeding. Finally I followed your instruction and now I got what I wanted. Really thanks a lot and hopefully this can help others too. (not to mention I learned a lot!) :) This is one important reason why I am in love with linux. :) A little curiosity and it lets you learn everything you care about hardware/software. Yes, Linux is so good. After dual booting for a while I don't even want/need to use M$ anymore and that's why I want to kill M$ completely. (not to mention the label on the laptop!) :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
Manu Hack wrote: Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions. So I got two grub/menu.lst, but how grub knows which one to read (one is hda1 and one is hda2)? Grub will read the menu.lst from the partition that contained /boot/grub/menu.lst when grub-install was run. So if I want grub to read the menu.lst from hda1, I should boot in using hda1 and run grub-install /dev/hda1 and then supposedly I can use hda2 for other storage? Yes, except that the command should be grub-install /dev/hda to install grub on the master boot record. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:11:50PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way to make use of that 5G? Any good website showing how to do add space at multiple points in the file system? Put a filesystem on it (e.g. ext3), mount it under /mnt, cp -a or rsync (or even use mc) everything under /usr, then unmount it from /mnt and mount it as /usr. If it works, unmount it, change /etc/fstab, remove everything under /usr and reboot. harland christofferson wrote: why would you need to reboot. wouldn't deleting the mount point from /etc/mtab and running mount -a work instead? Your main partition filesystem will now have additional free space equivalanet to the size of /usr. To add this space at multiple points in the filesystem: * Use fdisk (or your favorite partitioner) to remove hda1 * Recreate hda1 as an extended partition * Create as many logical partitions within the extended partition as you need * Mount these logical partitions wherever you need them in the filesystem -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:46:32AM -0700, harland christofferson wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Put a filesystem on it (e.g. ext3), mount it under /mnt, cp -a or rsync (or even use mc) everything under /usr, then unmount it from /mnt and mount it as /usr. If it works, unmount it, change /etc/fstab, remove everything under /usr and reboot. harland christofferson wrote: why would you need to reboot. wouldn't deleting the mount point from /etc/mtab and running mount -a work instead? Because you're changing something that has to do with things that automatically happen on boot. I'd rather discover a problem now while I remember what I did, than the next time I boot (a year from now?). Unless you have production services going on, a quick reboot is a good idea. If you do have production services, schedule the reboot for the next short maintenance window and be doubly sure that you've logged what you've done. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. If a couple of reboots is ok for you, the following method might work. You can use 'dd' to clone hda2 to hda1. Boot your system with init=/bin/bash. When you get to the bash prompt, do bash# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda1 When that completes, you would have your installation available on both the partitions. The 5GB hda1 would contain a filesystem that is only 1GB large. Restart your system. You would boot normally with a 1GB root. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry for the linux on hda1. set root to (hd0,0) and append root=/dev/hda1 for the kernel line of the new entry. mkdir /tmp/newroot; mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/newroot Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda1. Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions. Once you have satisfied yourself that both are working, boot into your 1GB partition, and resize hda1. The command resize2fs /dev/hda1 should be sufficient. Restart into the 5GB parition and now you would have a 5GB root with over 4GB free space. Run grub-install /dev/hda so that grub can load itself from the new location. You can now copy over your home directory from the 1GB partition and continue using hda1. If you wish you format hda2 and mount it as /home. Feel free to post any problems you may have and make sure you take a backup of important files before proceeding. Good luck, rajkiran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resize the partition with /
Hi all, I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the etch. I want to resize the partition so that I can install more programs and stuff like that. The current partition is like hda1 - 5G (before running XP) hda2 - 1G ( etch is living here) So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. Any suggestion would be welcome. What I want to do is to be able to apt-get upgrade stuff as right now I have only 5Mb of space in hda2. Thanks a lot! Manu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
You might want to try the gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). Boot from it and resize partitions on the fly. Good Luck. -- Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the etch. I want to resize the partition so that I can install more programs and stuff like that. The current partition is like hda1 - 5G (before running XP) hda2 - 1G ( etch is living here) So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. Have you considered reinstalling onto hda1 without removing hda2? Use debootstrap from your existing system. Make a grub-disk (floppy, so your laptop can boot it) so that you can set up your boot loader if something happens. See the installation manual for installing from an existing unix system. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the etch. I want to resize the partition so that I can install more programs and stuff like that. The current partition is like hda1 - 5G (before running XP) hda2 - 1G ( etch is living here) So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. Have you considered reinstalling onto hda1 without removing hda2? Or mount hda1 at some point on hda2 where you need the extra space. Voila! 5 GB extra space. You could also remove hda1 and recreate several partitions if you want to add space at multiple points in your filesystem. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
On 9/30/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the etch. I want to resize the partition so that I can install more programs and stuff like that. The current partition is like hda1 - 5G (before running XP) hda2 - 1G ( etch is living here) So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. Have you considered reinstalling onto hda1 without removing hda2? Not really. Mainly because that old laptop is really old. No other method is available to reboot other than that 6G harddisk. Use debootstrap from your existing system. Make a grub-disk (floppy, so your laptop can boot it) so that you can set up your boot loader if something happens. Even floppy boot is not available. See the installation manual for installing from an existing unix system. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
On 9/30/07, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the etch. I want to resize the partition so that I can install more programs and stuff like that. The current partition is like hda1 - 5G (before running XP) hda2 - 1G ( etch is living here) So I'd like to resize hda2 but I can't as it said I need to unmount hda2 before resizing. People suggest using a live CD but it's not possible with my old laptop (I didn't even install etch using CD, I can only install etch via goodbyemicrosoft.com). USB boot is also not available. Have you considered reinstalling onto hda1 without removing hda2? Or mount hda1 at some point on hda2 where you need the extra space. Voila! 5 GB extra space. You could also remove hda1 and recreate several partitions if you want to add space at multiple points in your filesystem. That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way to make use of that 5G? Any good website showing how to do add space at multiple points in the file system? Manu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:08:53PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: Even floppy boot is not available. My old Thinkpad can do netbooting. Can your laptop? Or are you saying that the _only_ way to boot this thing is with its internal hard drive? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:11:50PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way to make use of that 5G? Any good website showing how to do add space at multiple points in the file system? Put a filesystem on it (e.g. ext3), mount it under /mnt, cp -a or rsync (or even use mc) everything under /usr, then unmount it from /mnt and mount it as /usr. If it works, unmount it, change /etc/fstab, remove everything under /usr and reboot. Your main partition filesystem will now have additional free space equivalanet to the size of /usr. As for detailed instructions, its in one of the HOWTOs available as something like doc-linux-howto; I think multi-disk HOWTO. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize the partition with /
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:11:50PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way to make use of that 5G? Any good website showing how to do add space at multiple points in the file system? Put a filesystem on it (e.g. ext3), mount it under /mnt, cp -a or rsync (or even use mc) everything under /usr, then unmount it from /mnt and mount it as /usr. If it works, unmount it, change /etc/fstab, remove everything under /usr and reboot. Your main partition filesystem will now have additional free space equivalanet to the size of /usr. To add this space at multiple points in the filesystem: * Use fdisk (or your favorite partitioner) to remove hda1 * Recreate hda1 as an extended partition * Create as many logical partitions within the extended partition as you need * Mount these logical partitions wherever you need them in the filesystem -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:59:25AM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live CD, and use parted or one of it's GUI frontends to reconfigure your hard disk layout to your liking. Alternatively, e2resize is available but requires you to manually update your partition table, which can lead to data loss and corruption if you don't do it correctly. (g)parted on a live CD is your best option. Regards, Andrew Barr Also, If you can, backup /home, just to make sure. Alternatively, if you backup the /home data, then you can redo the partitioning and remove the partition, then add back what you wanted it to be. Then restore the /home data and proceed with your new install on the new partitions. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:37:54AM +0530, arijit sarkar wrote: I have debian installed on my 160gb hdd. [NOTE: this is the exact disk structure] / - 7gb swap - 2.5gb /home - rest 144gb now I feel, I could have used that space to install another linux OS for testing/exploring. so i want to know, is it possible to resize /home now? Yes. However, please look into swithing to LVM. This will help greatly with situations such as you are encountering now. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
Andrew Barr wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live CD, and use parted or one of it's GUI frontends to reconfigure your hard disk layout to your liking. Alternatively, e2resize is available but requires you to manually update your partition table, which can lead to data loss and corruption if you don't do it correctly. Did you mean resize2fs? I could not find e2resize anywhere. Hugo (g)parted on a live CD is your best option. Regards, Andrew Barr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Yes. However, please look into swithing to LVM. This will help greatly with situations such as you are encountering now. Regards, -Roberto thanks for all the suggestions. Since I'm switched to linux just recently (it's been six months), I never had any idea about LVM. I'll do that soon. I'm learning new things everyday. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you mean resize2fs? I could not find e2resize anywhere. Yes, sorry. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I resize my partition after installation ?
I have debian installed on my 160gb hdd. [NOTE: this is the exact disk structure] / - 7gb swap - 2.5gb /home - rest 144gb now I feel, I could have used that space to install another linux OS for testing/exploring. so i want to know, is it possible to resize /home now? i want to make my hdd structure like this, / - 7gb (root for current debian OS) swap - 2.5 gb (swap for both the OS) /home - 135gb (common for both OS) second /- 9gb (or whatever the size, for second OS's root) I have an article, which describes how to install two linux OS with common swap and home partition. but in that article, partitioning has done while installing first OS, which I didn't. So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live CD, and use parted or one of it's GUI frontends to reconfigure your hard disk layout to your liking. Alternatively, e2resize is available but requires you to manually update your partition table, which can lead to data loss and corruption if you don't do it correctly. (g)parted on a live CD is your best option. Regards, Andrew Barr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resize jfs partition
Hi, I have / directory on a partition with jfs file system. It has 140Gb size, but I remove another partition with 40Gb that was behind / partition. So I want to resize my / to get these 40Gb. I read some sites to resize partitions with: # mount -o remount,resize /home But I thing that I can't do it with / partition. There are any way to get it?. If not, maybe I can get any live-cd distro and then resize it. It is safe? (I don't want to loose my data) Thanks PD: fdisk /dev/sda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1586447102548+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda258656085 1775182+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda36086 24321 146480670 83 Linux /dev/sda4 29500 30401 72453155 Extended /dev/sda5 29500 30401 7245283+ b W95 FAT32 I want to get blocks from 24321 to 29500 (29499) into dev/sda3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resize jfs partition
dclemen wrote: Hi, I have / directory on a partition with jfs file system. It has 140Gb size, but I remove another partition with 40Gb that was behind / partition. So I want to resize my / to get these 40Gb. I read some sites to resize partitions with: # mount -o remount,resize /home Yes, that syntax works with jfs, as well. On your Debian system you can find that information in the mount(8) manual page. Search for Mount options for jfs. But I thing that I can't do it with / partition. Jfs _is_ able to resize a file system which is in use. There are any way to get it?. If not, maybe I can get any live-cd distro and then resize it. It is safe? (I don't want to loose my data) It is safe in the way that it will work reliably without any known errors that would lead to data loss. However, if a file system contains data that you cannot afford to lose, it is _always_ a very good idea to have a current backup. And of course, the risk of losing data is much higher when you're modifying file systems. Thanks PD: fdisk /dev/sda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1586447102548+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda258656085 1775182+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda36086 24321 146480670 83 Linux /dev/sda4 29500 30401 72453155 Extended /dev/sda5 29500 30401 7245283+ b W95 FAT32 I want to get blocks from 24321 to 29500 (29499) into dev/sda3 This involves two steps: (1) Use fdisk to enlarge your /dev/sda3 partition to the new size: Set the last cylinder of that partition to 29499 (not 29500 !). You need to reboot to make the kernel use the new partition table. Now the partition is 40 GB larger, but the file system on that partition does not fill the complete partition yet. (2) Enlarge the file system on /dev/sda3 to completely fill the partition with mount -o remount,resize. Regards, Dennis -- Send personal mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Off-list mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not reach me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resize jfs partition
Thanks for your reply. This afternoon I will try it. Thanks again!! Dennis Stosberg escribió: dclemen wrote: Hi, I have / directory on a partition with jfs file system. It has 140Gb size, but I remove another partition with 40Gb that was behind / partition. So I want to resize my / to get these 40Gb. I read some sites to resize partitions with: # mount -o remount,resize /home Yes, that syntax works with jfs, as well. On your Debian system you can find that information in the mount(8) manual page. Search for Mount options for jfs. But I thing that I can't do it with / partition. Jfs _is_ able to resize a file system which is in use. There are any way to get it?. If not, maybe I can get any live-cd distro and then resize it. It is safe? (I don't want to loose my data) It is safe in the way that it will work reliably without any known errors that would lead to data loss. However, if a file system contains data that you cannot afford to lose, it is _always_ a very good idea to have a current backup. And of course, the risk of losing data is much higher when you're modifying file systems. Thanks PD: fdisk /dev/sda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1586447102548+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda258656085 1775182+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda36086 24321 146480670 83 Linux /dev/sda4 29500 30401 72453155 Extended /dev/sda5 29500 30401 7245283+ b W95 FAT32 I want to get blocks from 24321 to 29500 (29499) into dev/sda3 This involves two steps: (1) Use fdisk to enlarge your /dev/sda3 partition to the new size: Set the last cylinder of that partition to 29499 (not 29500 !). You need to reboot to make the kernel use the new partition table. Now the partition is 40 GB larger, but the file system on that partition does not fill the complete partition yet. (2) Enlarge the file system on /dev/sda3 to completely fill the partition with mount -o remount,resize. Regards, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resize swap partition `in situ`, using parted
In an attempt to redistribute disk space I'm trying to shrink the size of my swap space. Qtparted refuses to do the job as it's in use and the version on my Knoppix CD doesn't appear to work. The parted boot disk is currently unavailable from the GNU website, so my only option at the moment appears to be using parted on the fly. *However* parted warns me that the partition is in use and modification could cause severe corruption. Can I ignore this warning? (running version 1.6.6-1 on sid). As an aside, parted uses MB while fdisk uses cylinders. How do I convert between the two? Thanks! = --- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize swap partition `in situ`, using parted
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 23:16 GMT, Simon Tod penned: In an attempt to redistribute disk space I'm trying to shrink the size of my swap space. Qtparted refuses to do the job as it's in use and the version on my Knoppix CD doesn't appear to work. The parted boot disk is currently unavailable from the GNU website, so my only option at the moment appears to be using parted on the fly. *However* parted warns me that the partition is in use and modification could cause severe corruption. Can I ignore this warning? (running version 1.6.6-1 on sid). Perhaps you could comment out the swap section of your fstab and reboot, then try it? Assuming that the system doesn't have a cow because it can't find swap (I have no idea if it would), I would think this would work. As an aside, parted uses MB while fdisk uses cylinders. How do I convert between the two? Thanks! = --- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk -- monique Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive super-spy stuff with me, please don't email me directly. I will most likely see your post before I read your mail, anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize swap partition `in situ`, using parted
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:45:12PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 23:16 GMT, Simon Tod penned: In an attempt to redistribute disk space I'm trying to shrink the size of my swap space. Qtparted refuses to do the job as it's in use and the version on my Knoppix CD doesn't appear to work. The parted boot disk is currently unavailable from the GNU website, so my only option at the moment appears to be using parted on the fly. *However* parted warns me that the partition is in use and modification could cause severe corruption. Can I ignore this warning? (running version 1.6.6-1 on sid). Perhaps you could comment out the swap section of your fstab and reboot, then try it? Assuming that the system doesn't have a cow because it can't find swap (I have no idea if it would), I would think this would work. Alternatively, check out the swapoff command. And I'm given to understand that you DO NOT want to simply ignore parted's warning about modifying an in-use partition. Cheers -- ,-. -ScruLoose- | If I had a dog as daft as you, I'd shoot him. Please do not | - Scottish Proverb reply off-list. | `-' pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
resize riserfs partition
Hola listaaa. Me encuentro con un problema, y a ver si alguno me puede ayudar. tengo un portatil con un HD de 20 hda1 IBM Thinkpad hibernation hda2 NTFS 2,5Gig hda3 linux 17Gig hda4 linux swap260Mb hda3 realmente es esta en reiserfs. Bueno ahora el problema esta en que necesito mas espacio para el puñetero windows (ya q no uso solo yo). Por lo cual quiero modificar el tamaño del hda3 y crear otra particion. fdisk no tiene opcion resize parted tiene opcion resize pero aun no soporta reiserfs he usado el resize_reiserfs y le he quitado 1,5Gigas, pero el fdisk sige detectandome los 17Gig pero hago un df y me muestra que availables hay 15,5Gigas. Total que no se como modificar el tamaño de la particion. A ver si alguno de vosotros me puede ayudar o darme alguna idea -- Saludos, listadebian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resize riserfs partition
listadebian wrote: Hola listaaa. Me encuentro con un problema, y a ver si alguno me puede ayudar. tengo un portatil con un HD de 20 hda1 IBM Thinkpad hibernation hda2 NTFS 2,5Gig hda3 linux 17Gig hda4 linux swap260Mb hda3 realmente es esta en reiserfs. Bueno ahora el problema esta en que necesito mas espacio para el puñetero windows (ya q no uso solo yo). Por lo cual quiero modificar el tamaño del hda3 y crear otra particion. fdisk no tiene opcion resize parted tiene opcion resize pero aun no soporta reiserfs he usado el resize_reiserfs y le he quitado 1,5Gigas, pero el fdisk sige detectandome los 17Gig pero hago un df y me muestra que availables hay 15,5Gigas. Total que no se como modificar el tamaño de la particion. A ver si alguno de vosotros me puede ayudar o darme alguna idea No lo sé, pero no será que resize_reiserfs modifica sólo el sistema de archivos y te falta modificar la tabla de particiones? -- Linux User #98419 -o)| Haga trabajar a un diputado... ¡No http://counter.li.org /\| lo reelija! ICQ 94335020 _\_v | | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to resize root partition?
I have Debian 1.2 on hda3 (350M). Is it possible to resize it to 300M? If this isn't possible, is it possible to cp hda3 to hda2 and run from hda2? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list in a minute.
Re: How to resize root partition?
Hello! On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 09:06:05PM +0800, a wrote: I have Debian 1.2 on hda3 (350M). Is it possible to resize it to 300M? as far as i know - it's not possible.. If this isn't possible, is it possible to cp hda3 to hda2 and run from hda2? this is possible (actually i did something similar yesterday :-): mke2fs /dev/hda2 mount /dev/hda2 /mnt cd /mnt cp -axv /* . edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and change hda3-s to hda2-s insert a floppy into drive0 and: cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 reboot lilo that's it!! :) Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list in a minute. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [--- snip ---] -- - Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
