I have a dual boot machine that I want to change the partition sizes on. I've already shrunk the WinNT partitions and now have 50-60 Gig of unallocated space on two drives. The WinNT partitions are at the beginning of both disks (C and D), and the linux file systems are at the ends of both disks (/dev/hdb2, /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hda2), with the free space in the middle. ------------------------------------------- | Windows | Free | linux | ------------------------------------------- I want to increase the size of the linux partitions to take up all free space. ------------------------------------------- | Windows | linux | ------------------------------------------- Can this be done without a re-install and if so, what tools to use? I used Partition Magic 8 to resize the NT partitions. Thanks- Dan
Dan Weisenstein wrote:
I have a dual boot machine that I want to change the partition sizes on. I've already shrunk the WinNT partitions and now have 50-60 Gig of unallocated space on two drives. The WinNT partitions are at the beginning of both disks (C and D), and the linux file systems are at the ends of both disks (/dev/hdb2, /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hda2), with the free space in the middle.
------------------------------------------- | Windows | Free | linux | -------------------------------------------
I want to increase the size of the linux partitions to take up all free space.
------------------------------------------- | Windows | linux | -------------------------------------------
Can this be done without a re-install and if so, what tools to use? I used Partition Magic 8 to resize the NT partitions.
With partition magic 8 you can do it! Move your linux partition , than resize it. That would work, if you aren't using a bed file-system like reiser-fs. This I have tried, but you can't do it with Partition Magic or any other program, I know. Good luck, Andreas
Thanks- Dan
www.knoppix.org get Feb 9 2004 or later. qtparted is much faster than PM boot this off CDROM open console and su run qtparted from here. CWSIV On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:00, Dan Weisenstein wrote:
I have a dual boot machine that I want to change the partition sizes on. I've already shrunk the WinNT partitions and now have 50-60 Gig of unallocated space on two drives. The WinNT partitions are at the beginning of both disks (C and D), and the linux file systems are at the ends of both disks (/dev/hdb2, /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hda2), with the free space in the middle.
------------------------------------------- | Windows | Free | linux | -------------------------------------------
I want to increase the size of the linux partitions to take up all free space.
------------------------------------------- | Windows | linux | -------------------------------------------
Can this be done without a re-install and if so, what tools to use? I used Partition Magic 8 to resize the NT partitions.
Thanks- Dan
On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:54 am, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
www.knoppix.org get Feb 9 2004 or later.
qtparted is much faster than PM
Maybe I was missing something at the knoppix site, but it appeared that the only way to get the software there was to do a 700 MB download of the entire CD image. That's quite a large download! Paul Abrahams
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:54 am, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
www.knoppix.org get Feb 9 2004 or later.
qtparted is much faster than PM
Maybe I was missing something at the knoppix site, but it appeared that the only way to get the software there was to do a 700 MB download of the entire CD image. That's quite a large download!
It's always a good idea to boot from other than the system you're resizing. With Knoppix, you have a complete Linux system, which allows you to run what ever tools you want.
On Saturday 13 March 2004 12:03, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:54 am, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
www.knoppix.org get Feb 9 2004 or later.
qtparted is much faster than PM
Maybe I was missing something at the knoppix site, but it appeared that the only way to get the software there was to do a 700 MB download of the entire CD image. That's quite a large download!
That same tool is also available on System Rescue CD from: http://www.sysresccd.org/ which is a much smaller download than Knoppix.
yes thats correct.
Or www.cheapbytes.com but it may not be the latest from Feb 16 2004.
worst case try the local university to see if they have a bog pipe to the
net.
Associated Computing M? should have a broadband connection in the office.
Otherwise see if someone local can mail you a copy.
CWSIV
Paul W. Abrahams"
On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:54 am, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
www.knoppix.org get Feb 9 2004 or later.
qtparted is much faster than PM
Maybe I was missing something at the knoppix site, but it appeared that the only way to get the software there was to do a 700 MB download of the entire CD image. That's quite a large download!
Paul Abrahams
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