Resizing a partition software / information.

BluePyre · 08-30-2004, 06:25 PM

Ok, at the moment I have three partitions:
ntfs, 5 gigs
fat32, 7 gigs,
ext3, 28 gigs

I'm running Mandrake 10 on the ext3 partition. I want to resize the partition so I can give SuSE 9.1 a try. What steps do I need to take / programs do I need to use to do so?

win32sux · 08-30-2004, 06:28 PM

you could try with qtparted:

http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

BluePyre · 08-30-2004, 06:51 PM

No, that doesn't seem to allow the resizing of ext3 partitions.

mysterio · 08-30-2004, 07:04 PM

If that's the same qtparted that's on the knoppix cd, it's worked for me, on the ext3 partitions.

BluePyre · 08-30-2004, 07:06 PM

Wierd, http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html shows otherwise.
But there's the catch, would I be able to resize a partition from the partition i'm currently on? I mean if i'm on the ext3 partition can I still resize it?

win32sux · 08-30-2004, 07:39 PM

qtparted is a gui front-end to parted... parted supports ext3 resizing...

from what i've read, the only catch is that the start of the partition must stay fixed:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

Quote:

Originally posted by BluePyre
would I be able to resize a partition from the partition i'm currently on? I mean if i'm on the ext3 partition can I still resize it?

i think you could do it, but it's way much simpler and safer if you do this from a live cd... this one comes with qtparted, among other things:

http://www.sysresccd.org/

BluePyre · 08-30-2004, 07:50 PM

Oh cool, that cd looks great

BluePyre · 09-18-2004, 12:05 PM

I tried qtparted from knoppix and system rescue cd, but I got the error
"no partition table found", or something like that. On Knoppix I ran it as root. It then caused a SIGSEV error which removed all the KDE titlebars or some oddity like that.....

Any other solutions? Does qtparted not commit changes once the computer is restarted? I think thats what partition magic did when I used it a while back.