On 09/05/06 07:19, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Monday 08 May 2006 6:31 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
I don't know of anything that will move a Reiser partition. Given the current state of things (you have to use cfdisk, with extreme caution, making sure the new partition start point is *exactly* at the old partition start point), I won't even try to resize one.
I have successfully resized and moved ReiserFS partitions with QTParted. There is also a utility, resize_reiserfs.
Resize_reiserfs is exactly the nightmare I was talking about. When I see "use cfdisk" followed closely by "Make sure you re-create it with the same starting disk cylinder as before! Otherwise, the resize operation will certainly not work, and you may lose your entire filesystem." I want to shoot the programmers :-) I am sure I must have seen you or others mention qtparted before, but nothing showed up when I went to google. Thanks for the reminder. I found that qtparted requires the progrsreiserfs package, which is said to conflict with the "official" reiserfsprogs from namesys (the namesys package seems to be called "reiserfs" in SuSE); I've also seen a lot of talk about progsreiserfs destroying filesystems. It is difficult to sort through this tangle of information, so if you have any observations they'd be appreciated.