Dear All,

I have an ACER Extensa 3000 Laptop with SuSE9.3 and Windows XP installed. Total size of the harddisk is 80GB. Presently the partition is 15 GB for windows and 56 GB for linux. Due to some reason, I would like to increase the size of windows from 15 GB to 30 GB. Can anybody suggest a way to acheive it?

The following is the df -h (I hope it is redable!)

> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 56G 22G 34G 40% /
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 15G 13G 2.8G 82% /windows/C

I have tried with the (expert-)partitioner in YasT2. But while I am trying the resize linux (hda4), it complaints that it is mounted and first it should be unmounted. Is it safe to unmount while logging in to linux already (I even don't know what that really means!)?

I will highly appreaciate your help and suggestions in this respect. Thanks in advance...

Nisanth

Please post the output of:

mount

executed as root, please. We should know what filesystem do you use..

The output of mount is follows:


/dev/hda4 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda2 on /windows/C type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)


Thanks, Nisanth

You can do it with resize_reiserfs. Beware that your root partition must be unmounted. That means you should boot from a live cd.