resize linux partition
hello all,
i need help desperatly i am running out of room in the linux partition (suse 9.0), and i much increase the size of the partition in order to continue working. ( i didnt know linux takes so much space) i asked around before and i got 2 answers. use qtparted and the system rescue disk when i try to install qtparted it tells me i dont have libparted installed so it stops the installation. so i went to the sys rescue disk. it booted up alright, when i tried to get qtparted up from there it told me I am not root, and it didnt detect any drives so it wasn't useful. can someone please explain to me how I can resize the linux partition (take space from windows partition on the same physical drive). this is very important to me, and i will be extremly grateful for those who will help thank you, Guy |
Hi Guy,
You'd use something like a Knoppix live cd, on which qtparted is already installed. My experience was that I had to use Knoppix 3.4 and Knoppix 3.9 because they had different versions of qtparted that could do different things, so make sure you have both of them handy. You may have to start qtparted with a command including the name of the hard disk that you want to repartition, e.g. "qtparted /dev/hda" Call back when you got that far and are experiencing problems - Knoppix should be connecting to the web just like your normal hardware Linux install. HTH, Samsara . |
hello! welcome. have you installed libparted? get rid of things you don't need. (g)zip and tar large image files etc. uninstall stuff you don't use. Have you tried a LiveCD to use qtparted (not sys rescue- use knoppix or ubuntu)? you will only need a little bit of space for libparted- so... you can also delete core memory dumps. (if you don't use them, that is.)
titanium_geek |
hi again,
i'm having a little hard time following. - i need to get knoppix cd and use it for qtparted and it will work for suse? - i dont know where to get libparted to i can install it. if anyone can help with that matter, thanks, thanks again, Guy |
ok. The problem is that your hardrive looks like this:
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[----linux---|-----windows--] OR: install libparted- read this: http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/download.en.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search hope this helps titanium_geek |
where/what do I do after i have knoppix cd?
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ok i found qtparted on knoppix
where can i get help with qtparted? it isnt the most intuitive program around |
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titanium_geek |
thanks for the instructions.
i went to the partition i was to increase from. for simplicity drive F is where i cut some space for linux. so now i want to take some more of F and combine it with the linux partition. in order to do that i assume i need to resize F to how much i need it and that will result in my shrinked F windows partition and some free space. now 2 questions arouse. do i need to defragment F so all files will be in the front of the partition? how, using qtparted, i combine my existing linux partition with the free space i just obtained from F (which function in qtparted)? titanium_geek - thanks for being so patient with me |
defraging is probably a good idea. You don't need to merge the partitions, you just need to edit fstab. Have a look at it, it is fairly obvious what you need to add. So, linux sees:
[----linux-----|other|---more linux space----] titanium_geek |
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