[opensuse] Partition Resizing

15 Jan 2007

      I've been running OpenSuse 10.1 and subsequently 10.2 on a dual boot machine 
for some time now quite successfully. I'd like to ditch the Windows 
partition(s) altogether given that it hasn't been used for over 6 months and 
I can do everything I need to on OpenSuse. Is it possible to simply remove 
the Window partitions and reallocate to OpenSuse? Partition info:

/dev/hda			Disk				37.2G
/dev/hda1			HPFS/NTFS		35G   18G   18G  50% /windows/C
/dev/hdb			Disk				74.5G
/dev/hdb1			HPFS/NTFS		29G   25G  3.5G  88% /windows/D
/dev/hdb2			Extended			33.3G
/dev/hdb6			Linux Native		13G  8.6G  4.2G  68% /
/dev/hdb7			Linux Native		19G   17G  2.3G  89% /home

Ideally I would like to reallocate /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdb2 then /dev/hdb7

Is this possible to do without loosing my / and /home data and if so which 
would be the most suitable tool. The Yast2 partition tool will not for 
example allow me to edit /dev/hdb2.

Colonel Orange

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