Shrinking Root Partition

celticdaddio · 10-06-2005, 09:45 AM

I have SUSE Pro 9.2 installed on my laptop dual booting with WinXP Pro. I find that I need to relinquish some of the space on my linux partition for windoze. How can I resize/shrink my root partition?

Ed

abisko00 · 10-06-2005, 10:00 AM

It is possible to shink the partition at its lower end. I think the best way to do this is to boot from some kind of LiveCD (I use KNOPPIX), which has all required tools available. If your root partition is formated with reiserfs, you'll need to use resize_reiserfs and any type of partitioner (I use cfdisk). Read the manpage of resize_reiserfs for more information on the procedure.