Partition issues

Cyric · 08-07-2006, 12:31 PM

I am trying to make a new partition on my hard drive. I only have one partition right now, and it takes up the whole drive, it seems. Cfdisk is not letting me make a new partition because of this, as far as I can tell. How would I shrink the size of the current partition so I can make another one?

mdarby · 08-07-2006, 12:39 PM

I believe the program 'parted' will allow you to do this. I'd back everything up first!

Cyric · 08-07-2006, 01:27 PM

I take it that doesnt come standard on Slackware 10.2. If not, I need another option, the computer crashed and I am trying to get back into it and salvage what I can by making a new partition, installing 10.2 fresh, and mounting the old partition to retrieve my files.

MS3FGX · 08-07-2006, 01:41 PM

System Rescue CD, which you can find here, contains Parted and it's GUI front-end QtParted.

But it would be safer to copy the data off the existing partition to an external drive, or something like that, since resizing partitions can be dangerous.

Cyric · 08-07-2006, 01:46 PM

well, I corrupted my root user, I posted about this a month or so back, here is the link just for reference:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=463544

That is hindering me from doing alot of things. Most commands segmentation fault. This is the only way I can think of to retrieve my lost files. Unless....is there anything else that could help me on the rescue disk?

Cyric · 08-07-2006, 02:17 PM

I got the rescue cd, and I tried to use parted to change the partition size, but it returned this to me:

This ext2 file system has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet).

Maybe if I can get the ethernet card functioning again, I can go in through my ssh client on the other computer and pull the files I need out?

ringwraith · 08-07-2006, 05:32 PM

I hope your hard drive is not toast.