Done now; it took 20 minutes. I was just getting paranoid because I've
never had to partition a hard drive before.
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
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> > I'm using parted to resize a 20GB partition down to 5GB. It's taken
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I'm using parted to resize a 20GB partition down to 5GB. It's taken
> quite awhile so far. How long should I expect this particular task to take?
That can depend on the file system type (vfat, ext2, etc), amount of file
system used/free, numbe
I resized a 12 gig disk down to 1 and it took at least 10 minutes.
-Steve
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I'm using parted to resize a 20GB partit
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On 13 Jan 2003 10:32:20 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I have a huge extended partition, hda4, on my system. I'd like to
> subdivide that partition, creating a large VFAT partition that both
> Windows and Linux can see as well as partitions for
