Partitioning Software

conormacaoidh · 03-21-2009, 05:15 PM

Hi,

I need to find some partitioning software so that I can make a 20GB partition on my Hard Disk. I have tried gparted but that won't let me resize the partition because it doesn't support editing local partitions. I have also tried qtparted which didn't even recoginse my file system!

Can anyone suggest a program for me? Using Fedora 10.

Thanks

repo · 03-21-2009, 05:22 PM

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gparted but that won't let me resize the partition because it doesn't support editing local partitions

You need to unmount the partition in order to resize it.

amani · 03-21-2009, 05:36 PM

get parted magic CD or use parted or gparted from some other live CD.

It is the safer way of doing it.

file system type?

conormacaoidh · 03-21-2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by amani

get parted magic CD or use parted or gparted from some other live CD.

Right... Is it possible to do it from the system that I am running? I am making 20 GB space and there is 70 GB available.

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file system type?

ext3 which is pretty standard,,, Must have been an error that it didn't detect it.

conormacaoidh · 03-21-2009, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by repo

You need to unmount the partition in order to resize it.

Can you unmount a partition that you are using?

amani · 03-21-2009, 06:36 PM

Boot PC from parted magic CD and do it.

1. download iso
2. burn to CD as image ...
3. adjust boot order in bios to boot from cd/dvd drive

If it is not the / partition, then you can do it from the running system.

E.g.

#su

#umount /media/sda3

(for unmounting )

repo · 03-21-2009, 06:38 PM

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If it is not the / partition, then you can do it from the running system.
E.g.
#su
#umount /media/sda3
(for unmounting )

qparted has an option to unmount the partition.

conormacaoidh · 03-21-2009, 07:06 PM

Thanks I am just downloading the iso. I'll let you know how I get on

conormacaoidh · 03-21-2009, 08:13 PM

Right using the CD i got the same error as when I was using gparted locally. Which said that gparted does not currently support editing local filesystems. I was also wrong about the filesystem I'm using. It is lvm2... the default with Fedora 10.

Back in the day i remember this process being a hell of a lot easier with Vista! :-)

repo · 03-21-2009, 09:42 PM

AFAIK, LVM is not a filesystem, It's a virtualization layer for hard disk storage. Gparted, parted, fdisk or other tools for physical partitioning can't handle LVM, you must use the graphical system-config-lvm tool or the command-line LVM programs.

Take a look at
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=154874