Hi,
I have a laptop with openSuSE 10.2 and Windows XP as dual-boot with GRUB
as bootloader. SuSE currently has one Reiser partition plus a swap
partition, and there are two Windows partitions, one hidden and one,
well, not.
It turns out that I need more space for XP, so I first shrank the Reiser
partition to make space available, but foolishly overlooked that the
space would become available in a section where I currently can't make
use of it.
This is the current partition table:
Platte /dev/hda: 40.0 GByte, 40007761920 Byte
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/hda1 1 230 1847443+ 1b Verst. W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 231 1741 12137107+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 * 1743 3701 15735667+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4751 4864 915705 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
So there's about 8 GB free space between hda3 and hda4. I'd like to
format about 1,5 of that with a native Linux format and make it the home
of /home. The remaining 6,5 should be merged with the larger FAT32
partition (currently hda2). All of this should be, so to speak,
minimally invasive, as I don't have the time to reinstall either Windows
or Linux.
I don't quite know how to go about doing this. Two things bug me. First,
I can't create another primary partition because there already are four
on the disk, and it's not possible to create a logical partition because
it would need an extended partition, which cannot be created because the
limit of four extended/primary partitions has been reached.
Second, what changes do I have to make for GRUB to still find the
bootable partitions afterwards? And where would I make them?
Finally, how, considering the above conditions, do I go about actually
*moving* the Reiser partition up so that the free space becomes adjacent
to the FAT32 partition, which seems the most economical way to go about
things?
Thanks a lot in advance,
best regards,
Birgit Kellner
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