Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Radule Soskic wrote:
I am preparing myself for new installation of SUSE 9.0 over an existing SuSE 8.1 system.
I have only one 20Gb HD which is divided into hda1 (/boot), swap and hda3 (with all the rest).
My /dev/hda3 has about 19Gb total, currently used only 55%, so I have about 9Gb free. It is reiserfs file system. [snip] I mean, if I could resize (shrink) my /dev/hda3, then create new partition on the free space. I could copy my data to this partition, and proceed with new installation, formatting all but this new partition. Later I can copy the needed data and try to reintegrate the temp backup partition into the new system...
Is this possible? If yes, is there anybody willing to share step-by-step instructions.
Oh it is most definitely possible, to my knowedge. You unfortunately though have to use on the commercially avail partition managers (see Acronis.com) to resize your paririon without losing data.
To my knowledge using the rescue system vakes you lose data ie it formats the partition.
I already studied man pages for reiserfsck, mkreiserfs, resize_reiserfs, cfdisk, sfdisk, parted etc similar programs. It seems like possible to me, but I don't feel self-confident enough to proceed before someone shows me the clear path to follow.
I have used Partition Magic before and it is really a semi-no-brainer especially since it has a GUI. I would assume that the Acronis product is similar, although to date I have not used it.
rsync -avubpoDrz --exclude-from=/FROMFILE / /XXX ####rsync the lot except for the directories mentioned in /FROMFILE from / to /XXX. /FROMFILE can contain 2 lines /proc /XXX /XXX is where you've mounted the new partition you want to rsync to. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.