channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread V.Suresh
I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Marco Parrone
... I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? ... i think you should use parted, but i've never used it, and i don't know if it work well or not. you can see apt-cache show

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Brian Stults
Marco Parrone wrote: ... I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? ... i think you should use parted, but i've never used it, and i don't know if it work well or not.

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To resize your root partition with parted, there is a boot disk available at the parted site here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/parted/ You need a boot disk for this since the partition being resized can't be mounted. Tom V.Suresh wrote: I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:02:13PM +0600, V.Suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? There are nondestructive repartitioning tools. All of

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread John Galt
ext2resize On Sat, 19 May 2001, V.Suresh wrote: I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread V.Suresh
Thanks. Shall try it. Also, never knew about apt-cached show pkg. It's very good, actually. Thanks for it too. ;-) Once upon a time, Marco Parrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] found a keyboard. And typed: ... I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I