I would like to expand a Reiser file system in both directions--I have free space both in front and behind my Reiser partition. If I understand the documentation correctly, I can *only* use tools like resize_reiserfs and parted to expand the back end of the partition. Do I need to wipe it all out and start over from scratch? I have Partition Magic 7.0 installed under Windows 2000 on this same machine. PM thinks my Reiser partition is ext2, and is apparently willing to try to move it for me. Is this likely to work? Is there some way to convert from reiserfs to ext2 and back? Thanks, Peter Taylor
i had a problem resizing and partitioning with reiser, it wouldnt let me, i have partition magic 8 and it said the partition with Linux was bad or something, even though everything works fine, i think PM just doesnt like Reiser. -- Kill the lights, let the candles burn behind the pumpkins’ mischievous grins, And let the skeletons dance. For one thing is certain, The Misfits have returned And once again everyday is Halloween.
On Monday 27 January 2003 12:18, Peter Taylor wrote:
I would like to expand a Reiser file system in both directions--I have free space both in front and behind my Reiser partition. If I understand the documentation correctly, I can *only* use tools like resize_reiserfs and parted to expand the back end of the partition. Do I need to wipe it all out and start over from scratch?
How much spare room do you have either side? LVM would probably be a good solution to this. If you have enough space either side to hold the contents of the fs you want to expand, create a volume group, then make your 2 areas of free space physical volumes in it. Make them into one logical volume, mount it and copy the data over. Then make the original partition a physical volume, and add it to the volume group. Problem solved! LVM is a great tool which far too few people use, IMHO. YaST support needs to be improved and debugged, but when it's ready I'd like to see SuSE go over to using it by default. That would solve the problem of "how do I best partition my disks" in a stroke. -- Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going today?"
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Allen Kenner
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