[NTLUG:Discuss] Resizing Linux partitions

[Craig Gill]

Try the gparted livecd, it's a nice gui partition resizing app on a livecd.
It is well supported.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Craig


> 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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