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03-21-2009, 05:15 PM
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Partitioning Software
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
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03-21-2009, 05:22 PM
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Belgium
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gparted but that won't let me resize the partition because it doesn't support editing local partitions
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You need to unmount the partition in order to resize it.
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03-21-2009, 05:36 PM
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Location: Kolkata, India
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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?
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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.
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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.
ext3 which is pretty standard,,, Must have been an error that it didn't detect it.
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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.
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Can you unmount a partition that you are using?
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03-21-2009, 06:36 PM
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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 )
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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 )
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qparted has an option to unmount the partition.
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03-21-2009, 07:06 PM
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Thanks I am just downloading the iso. I'll let you know how I get on
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03-21-2009, 08:13 PM
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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! :-)
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03-21-2009, 09:42 PM
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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
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