[NTLUG:Discuss] Dual booting Linux

[Sally Welch]

On 8/11/07, Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:41:40AM -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:

> > I have a machine loaded with SUSE 10.0 and I want to set up dual boot
> > with CentOS.
> > I am trying to do this with Knoppix5 and qtparted.  At first it would
> > not because of the ext3 FS.
> > Per instructions I found on the web, I changed sda2 to ext2.  Now the
> > resize window will come up for sda2.  However, when I try to resize, I
> > get the error "An error happened during ped_file_system_open call."
> > When I looked this up on the web, all the references are to resizing a
> > Windows partition and suggest running scandisk, which usually then
> > allows qtparted to resize.

>
> I've always used gparted (the gparted Live CD usually) and had no problems.
> Give it a shot.
> Wayne

> > Michael


Michael, running fsck on the unmounted filesystem might do the trick.

I recently, however, used gparted to shrink a linux filesystem and it
would not run either.  I ended up using resize2fs to shrink my e3fs
filesystem and then used fdisk to shrink the partition.  Not as easy,
but it got the job done.

Sally