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.
The way I do it is:
Boot a KNoppix CD or DVD.
Bring up a terminal window
su to root
make sure that swap is turned off for the physical drive you are working
with (this may not be necessary unless you are moving or resizing swap on
that drive).
then run 'qtparted /dev/hda'
I've done this a number of times. (You can search the SLE archives since I
have reported it a number of times in the past).
Again, anytime you are doing this type of operation, you run the risk of
trashing your data, so make sure you have a backup. In my case, I have
reorganized my home system a number of times. The most recent was when my
root partition was too small for one of the SUSE releases (9.3 at the time
I think). I have also use QTParted to successfully resize Windows XP NTFS
file systems at linux installfests, although both SUSE and Fedora
installers now do that reasonably well.
--
Jerry Feldman