Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
Same here. Because PM 4 won't allow moving/resizing a swap partition, I had to create another, destroy the original, then resize my other Linux partitions. Because of that, the new swap partition became misnumbered, which took about 5 seconds to fix by editing /etc/fstab. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Don't do this to a linux partition though. What, specifically, happened? I've done this a number of times, and I haven't had any problems.
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I tried it. I ended up reinstalling linux. Huh? I have PMed ext2 partitions hundreds of times on many machines, with never even one problem. With PM 3.0, 4.0, 4.01. But!If you move a bootable Linux partition you must re-lilo it afterwards because the absolute disk addresses in the boot record for that partition will no longer be correct. You just reboot that Linux from its floppy (you did keep it, didn't you?) and as superuser run lilo - it's as simple as that. This essential information should be in the PM manual - but it is not. Regards, Ron Stodden (AU)
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS partition or a special floppy to use this though) Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I tried it. I ended up reinstalling linux. Partition Magic did this to you? I've used it to resize ext2 partitions a number of times and it's worked like magic every single time... shrug Mind you, I've been using PM for a few years and it has *never* destroyed any data for me, regardless of the filesystem involved (ext2, fat, hpfs, and fat32 I've used it on). Vincent Danen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . ICQ: 16978834 http://shx.tzo.net . telnet://shx.tzo.net . http://tux.tzo.net BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Stronghold Enterprises/X BBS Check out the new Linux Information site at http://tux.tzo.net
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS partition or a special floppy to use this though) Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I tried it. I ended up reinstalling linux. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS partition or a special floppy to use this though) Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I tried it. I ended up reinstalling linux. What, specifically, happened? I've done this a number of times, and I haven't had any problems.
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS partition or a special floppy to use this though) Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I tried it. I ended up reinstalling linux. What, specifically, happened? I've done this a number of times, and I haven't had any problems. Yea, me too.. Resized via PM 4.0.. Worked like a charm. Been using PM since it came out for OS/2 as PM 2.0.. Love it. Need it... Use it every 200 days or so, but always worth it.. Alan.
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS partition or a special floppy to use this though) Good luck, Viktor
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
At 09:23 21/10/99 -0400, you wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Partition Magic 5 is about to be released, you might hold off for a little to get old PM4 @ a reduced price, or get PM5 new Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 University of Technology, Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] adding or increasing partitions
Can someone point me to the correct hot-to to add a partition to an existing system or increase the size of one of my existing partitions. I currently have hda1-4 and fdisk tells me I'll need to delete a current partition and add en extended partition to get to hda5. I've got ~3GB unallocated drive space - I'd rather just stretch an existing partition. Thanx Don
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
At 12:43 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Vanco, Donald wrote: Can someone point me to the correct hot-to to add a partition to an existing system or increase the size of one of my existing partitions. I currently have hda1-4 and fdisk tells me I'll need to delete a current partition and add en extended partition to get to hda5. I've got ~3GB unallocated drive space - I'd rather just stretch an existing partition. partition magic (under windows) will grow/shrink ext2. i think red hat and/or mandrake have a new unixified version (disk drake?) that will run native to linux...
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
"Vanco, Donald" wrote: Can someone point me to the correct hot-to to add a partition to an existing system or increase the size of one of my existing partitions. I currently have hda1-4 and fdisk tells me I'll need to delete a current partition and add en extended partition to get to hda5. I've got ~3GB unallocated drive space - I'd rather just stretch an existing partition. Thanx Don Holy smoke! Four primary partitions are all there are. Adding one is not possible without converting partition 4 to an extended partition and creating logical partitions within it. Umm. check that, the partition with the biggest track number at its end. It IS possible to put partition 3 after partition 4, for example, but the primary partitions are necessarily contiguous cylinders. Stretching one can be done by partition magic, in the commercial arena, or by using DiskDrake. I haven't checked the latest DiskDrake, so I do not know if it will preserve data on an ext2 partition yet. I would really suggest backing up your "outermost partition", then deleting it and making an extended partition including the rest of the disk. Following that, you can add logical partitions to taste, and leave a portion of the extended partition open for future dedication. I usually do leave some vacant space ready for a logical partition on high-capacity disks. My reasoning is that I can do some fstab entries and copy commands and remove commands and a few more fstab entries if I need, for example, to split /usr into /usr and /usr/local . Without the spare space, if I need to do that sort of split (as I had to do to help someone who had created / too small) It would proceed like this: 1. Find a partition with lotsa space 2. Create a directory /lotsa_space/unplanned_part 3. Copy the overflowing stuff to /lotsa_space/unplanned_part (in this case, it was /var) 4. remove /var 5. # ln -s /lotsa_space/unplanned_part /var Very kludgy compared to leaving a little undedicated space on an extended partition, but then that's why linux is so neat. There are many ways to do things! Civileme
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
Ian Douglas wrote: disk drake? Disk Druid? -id DiskDrake http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake I still don't know if the ext2resize is data-destructive at this time. It was at one time. Civileme
