A few Q's about (c)fdisk...

thugic · 07-03-2006, 03:07 PM

Hello to all the peers in here

Here's a short story before I make any question...
I had dual boot (Slack 10.2 + WinXP) configured box when Vista Public Beta came out. After that I thought: 'Hmm, it wouldn't be bad to test that stuff out, just to know what challenge will the Open Source community have....' thus I formatted the WinXp partition (hda1) and then installed Vista... Logically my LiLO had gone but I got managed to get it back somehow (hint: chroot). Anyway, after trying the new Wintendo I decided to format the hda1 partition and just to leave my Slackware on the box, and so I did.
Now, finally, the question: how can I resize my home partition to use the space that WinXP had before, without losing all my data?
this is my partition table (from cfdisk):

Code:

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
                                                      Size: 160041885696 bytes, 160.0 GB
                                             Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 19457

       Name                 Flags                Part Type         FS Type                       [Label]                   Size (MB)
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                  Pri/Log          Free Space                                               97099.44
       hda3                                       Primary          Linux swap                                                2048.10
       hda2                                       Primary          Linux ext3                                               20999.14
       hda4                 Boot                  Primary          Linux ext3                                               39892.61

Any idea?

Thanks in advance
-thugic

tamoneya · 07-03-2006, 08:50 PM

yes it is possible i would use something like qt-parted. However, you want to unmount the drive you are repartition and therefore cant run the OS from it. Use a livecd like system rescue cd.