On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 12:23, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Dennis Tuchler [04-09-03 10:07]:

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Is there software that will change the boundaries of a ReiserFS partition, making it smaller (all while preserving the contents of that partition) and produce a new ReiserFS partition in the space after the reduced partition?

:~> locate reiser | grep bin /sbin/debugreiserfs /sbin/fsck.reiserfs /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/reiserfsck /sbin/reiserfstune /sbin/resize_reiserfs

man resize_reiserfs

This is 8.1, you do not say ?? Answers to *many* questions may be found on your own machine.

Thank you for your reply! I am using 8.0, but I suspect there's no difference between 8.0 and 8.1 in this respect I just read the man entry for resize_reiserfs. It says nothing about the files on the partition to be resized. Are these files safe (will they be re-established in the smaller version of the partition)? Thanks again -- Dennis Tuchler

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 19:24, Dennis Tuchler wrote:

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 12:23, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Dennis Tuchler [04-09-03 10:07]:

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Is there software that will change the boundaries of a ReiserFS partition, making it smaller (all while preserving the contents of that partition) and produce a new ReiserFS partition in the space after the reduced partition?

:~> locate reiser | grep bin

/sbin/debugreiserfs /sbin/fsck.reiserfs /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/reiserfsck /sbin/reiserfstune /sbin/resize_reiserfs

man resize_reiserfs

This is 8.1, you do not say ?? Answers to *many* questions may be found on your own machine.

Thank you for your reply! I am using 8.0, but I suspect there's no difference between 8.0 and 8.1 in this respect

I just read the man entry for resize_reiserfs. It says nothing about the files on the partition to be resized. Are these files safe (will they be re-established in the smaller version of the partition)?

Thanks again

Even if they were safe, I'd still do a backup of them to cd and other machines on the lan before the resize. Just thinking out loud as I'm sure that you'll have the bu already.