Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["Anders Norrbring" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 2007/09/25 16:36 (GMT+0200) Anders Norrbring apparently typed:
> 
> > This isn't from the actual box, but it's a similar setup (can't seem
> to screenshot the current one):
> 
> > /dev/sdc1               1       19582   157292383+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sdc2           19583      243132  1795665375    f  W95 Ext'd
> (LBA)
> > /dev/sdc5           19583       30027    83891430   83  Linux
> > /dev/sdc6           32638      243132  1690801056   83  Linux
> 
> > sdc1 is xfs
> > sdc5 and sdc6 are reiserfs
> 
> This shows a gap between sdc5 and sdc6. sdc6 would need to be moved
> down to
> start where sdc5 stops to be able to "shrink" the extended fully.
> Shrinking
> the remainder beyond the end of sdc6 is pointless, but the obstacle you
> may
> be facing is that type "f". Type "f" is an abomination created by M$
> and
> enforced by Partition Magic. On an all-Linux system it serves no
> legitimate
> purpose. It's probably only there because either Win9x used to be
> there, or
> because PM was previously used on that disk. Change the type from "f"
> to "5"
> and the tool you're using may stop barfing over what you wish to do.
> Partition Magic should be able to move sdc6 down to the end of sdc5 and
> then
> resize the extended down to the new end of sdc6, but I wouldn't trust
> it. I'd
> make multiple backups before trying moving any Linux partition with PM,
> and
> particularly with any reiserfs partition I wouldn't even try.

I rigged up a temporary machine with a similar setup, and all operations went on just fine running it in PartEd Magic, so I think I'll give it a try on the "hot" system tomorrow.

Anders.

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