Anders Norrbring wrote:
Is there a way to "safely" resize extended partitions? I have a 2TB extended partition that has some reiserfs partitions inside and I'd
to shrink it without data loss.
Sure, full backup etc... But it's not an easy option in this case.
Can some tool like Partition Magic be used, or any other? I would imagine PartEd would work fine. My favorite incarnation for
Anders Norrbring wrote: like this is the version found on PartEd Magic found here:
http://distrowatch.com/partedmagic
As mentioned, though, you will first need to resize the internal partitions, then resize the extended partitions that contain them.
I just thought I'd let you know that PartEd Magic worked perfect! It took almost 22 hours, but it did get the job done without a single error.
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