[NTLUG:Discuss] Resizing Linux partitions

[Ed Leach]

This might help:

    http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions

Ed


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.
> 
> First you can't make these modifications to a mounted partition so I 
> tried 'linux rescue' using CentOS but it mounted the partition and I 
> couldn't figure out how to  get it "un-busy" to dismount it.  Then I 
> tried using the CD in "install mode" toggling over to a command prompt 
> on the first screen.  This seemed successful until parted complained 
> about "incompatible features enabled".
> 
> Googled and found that has_journal and dir_index were problem features 
> so I removed them with tune2fs and ran e2fsck -fD afterward (as the 
> posting indicated).  Still got the same message.  Found another posting 
> about sparse_super and resize_inode so I removed sparse_super.  However, 
> when I went to e2fsck the partition afterward it hung.
> 
> Bottom line: I trashed the partition.
> 
> 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?
> 
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