[NTLUG:Discuss] Resizing Linux partitions

[Jerome Haltom]

resize2fs works flawlessly. There should also never be any need to run
tune2fs. Boot off of any LiveCD.



On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 19:40 -0500, Kevin E. Ivey wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
> > Decided to try this since I needed a CentOS installation and would have 
> > enough room on a hard drive if I shrunk a couple of existing 
> > installations.  Read about 'move' and 'resize' in parted but ran into 
> > issues.
> <snipped>
> > No big deal since is was a test partition anyway, just some time 
> > wasted.  However, I am now very curious as to how you are supposed to go 
> > about resizing both ext3 and reiserfs partitions.  Anyone have good 
> > success with this using any non-commercial program?
> 
> I have always had success with qtparted or parted.  I use Knoppix or 
> Puppy Linux and resize and create Reiserfs partitions routinely...
> 
> good hunting!
> 
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