nondestuctive partition resize?

ocularbob · 01-03-2003, 10:42 PM

So I've got 3 hardrives, one 10g with RH8 a 9g with win98 and 40g with one single ext3 partition. I'd like to setup 10gs of the 40g
to be partitioned for a suSe installation. Is this possible to do without loosing whats on the drive with parted or just the partitioning stage of the suse install? Hoping there is a way.

MasterC · 01-03-2003, 10:45 PM

Yes, use a program called parted. It comes on most distros install CD, or you can get it at www.freshmeat.net

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ocularbob · 01-03-2003, 10:49 PM

awesome thanks

ocularbob · 01-04-2003, 12:07 AM

wait! one more thing. When i resize with parted does it matter if the parttion goes at the end or begining of the drive. Does this have any affect on my data surviving?

MasterC · 01-04-2003, 12:18 AM

I do not believe so. It's always a good idea to backup anyway, there is always "that one time".

But yeah, I don't think it matters if it goes at beginning or end (however, at the end might be your only choice...) And no, I don't think it has any effect on your data survival if it allows before or after.

Good Luck

ubien · 01-04-2003, 01:32 PM

Does parted work on fat32 also?

MasterC · 01-04-2003, 06:38 PM

According to the homepage, yes.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

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