Daniel Feiglin wrote:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Andrew Joakimsen [08-17-08 01:21]:

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Is it possible to use the Yast2 partitioner to resize an ext3 partition?

Only if you try, usually the *first* step.

I'd also be very wary about about commercial partition managers. I recently tried to use Paragon's Partition Manager (8.5) to modify my partition layout. The results were not good - and I had to restore the HD from a backup copy.

The above PM was however a simple and excellent means to prepare a new system. Some commercial partition managers don't recognize all or some Linux file systems. As I previously mentioned, for Linux, The GNU Partition manager is as good as most if not better. I'm not 100% certain about what the Yast partitioner actually uses, but most of the partitioning tools are included in the parted libraries.

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Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

Lol, I did try. I cloned a 120gb drive to a 160gb drive and wish to enlarge /home, after fixing all the disk-by-id issues the system boots normally. I logged out all users and ssh'd into the machine, umount /dev/sda3 (/home), and entered yast2 -> system -> partitioner. When I select the partition and select the "resize" option there is no way to enter the new size.

Here is what I see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=233741

Over the years I have resized many file systems. Since I run many Linux installfests, I generally use either GParted or QTParted by booting from a live CD (usually Knoppix or Gparted). By booting a live CD, you have more flexibility although, IMHO, Yast should be able to resize your 160. However, in your case you may have also cloned the partition table so Linux thinks you have a 120GB drive. Again, either QTParted or GParted should be able to help. You may be able to manually resize by: 1. expanding the physical partition using fdisk or cfdisk. This could be a bit dangerous since the geometry of the 160 is different from the 120. 2. There is a program to resize the ext3 file system: /sbin/resize2fs. Once you have manually resized the physical partition then you can run resize2fs. Based on your information, I don't think you will be able to expand the partition, but I could be wrong. This is essentially what the graphical partitioners do for you. -- Jerry Feldman Treasurer Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846