Resizing Partitions Problem!
 

Hallo everybody,

i have the following problem. I have both Windows and Suse 9.2 installed in my machine. Since i do not longer use windows so often, i decided to reallocate hard disk space by subtracting from the Windows partition and adding to the linux one.

My partition table looks like this:

dev/hda 55,8GB 0 7295
dev/hda2 16,8GB extended 0 7295
dev/hda1 27,1GB NTFS /Windows/C 0 3537
dev/hda5 11,5GB Linux / 5792 7294
dev/hda6 1,4GB Linux /Ilias 5584 5776

Obviously the cylinders 3538-5584 are not used since this is what i substracted from the Windows partition.
I would like to allocate this unused space to the / mounted partition and not to create a new Linux partition!!!
Is there a way to do this??

Thanx in advance for any answer!

Ilias

You could probably use cfdisk to add the free space to the front end of the root partition. If I read the partition table correctly, that would make one contiguous partition.

As always, make a backup of the partition you propose to change (/), so that you can restore the backup if anything goes wrong.