On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:39 -0700, Robert Smits wrote:
Has anyone tried to use the Partition manager to repartition - that is to resize a partition without losing data?
I understand I'd need to do it from the install disk so that the partitions on the hard drive aren't mounted, or something similar.
All I want to do is trim my /home partition a little and give some to the / partition. I'm a little too close to full for my liking. I want to add another 5 GB.
I used to do this in other OSes with Partition Manager but don't trust in with ext3 partitions.
PartEdMagic (http://partedmagic.com) is made for this. It includes the Gnome partition editor and some rescue and file management stuff in a little live Linux which boots from CD or usb key. It works as well as Partition Magic; I've used it extensively to resize partitions and even to re-order them with never any data loss. I think it would be a mistake to do this sort of thing to the disk you've booted from so I wouldn't use the yast partitioner. -- N. B. Day N 39° 28' 25" W 119° 48' 37" 1404 meters up Aurelius up 8:13, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.06, 0.05 2.6.25.11-0.1-default x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org