Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-30 Thread Dogsbody
AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to delete both partitions and then create a new one. I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions (albeit in MS DOS)? And this isn't possible in CentOS it self? :-/ Have you looked at the gparted L

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Barry Brimer
AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to delete both partitions and then create a new one. I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions (albeit in MS DOS)? And this isn't possible in CentOS it self? :-/ Have you looked at the gparted Live

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Dogsbody
Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like "Parted Magic" and others. Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others. Unfortunately `parted` doesn't work with this setup where the partition size is different to the filesystem size and throws up lot

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like > "Parted Magic" and others. > > Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others. And Gparted provides a very partition-magic like X11 interface to parted(?), I don't see it part of th

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jan 29 17:53:07 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition > AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to > delete both partitions and then create a new one. I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partition

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread MHR
On Jan 29, 2008 2:53 PM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to > > delete both partitions and then create a new one. > > I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions > (albeit > in MS DOS)? And this

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Dogsbody
AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to delete both partitions and then create a new one. I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions (albeit in MS DOS)? And this isn't possible in CentOS it self? :-/ Ho hum, thank you very much for t

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread MHR
On Jan 29, 2008 7:57 AM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I feel this is the most simple question but I am currently going around > and round in circles and searches keep bringing me up Windows tools!! :-( > > I have a 512MB USB drive that has a 12MB FAT16 partition on it. How can

[CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, I feel this is the most simple question but I am currently going around and round in circles and searches keep bringing me up Windows tools!! :-( I have a 512MB USB drive that has a 12MB FAT16 partition on it. How can I resize this 12MB partition to grow and fill the whole 512MB driv