From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3vgQ-0004zZ-Vz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:08:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6LE7WTH022408; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:07:32 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6LE093o011166 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:00:10 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67C983483 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:01:15 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xkK5-kb7Hj8w for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:01:08 +0200 (SAST) Received: from alanm.local (unknown [192.168.2.89]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A33B83461 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:01:08 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help on partitioning From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:59:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1153490395.19368.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f293c1b7-cc33-48e1-b070-955dfe313a4b X-Archives-Hash: a702676d500786e7fb03caeeb0061581 On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 14:54 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, I need a quick help for a simple question. > > My disk now looks like this: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 11G 9.2G 1.4G 88% / > udev 264M 242k 264M 1% /dev > /dev/hda4 4.9G 4.6G 329M 94% /home > /dev/hda5 25G 21G 3.9G 85% /mnt/share > none 264M 0 264M 0% /dev/shm Please post the output of 'fdisk -l' run as root. Without this info it's not really possible to give you a full answer, but I'll still try. > where hda5 is an extended part located after hda1 and before swap. At > the ends is hda4. Hmmmm, you want ot re-order those partitions so their number follows the location on-disk. > All parts are reiserfs unless hda5 which is FAT and I want to get rid of it. > > So what I want to do is to increase the size of hda1 and move some > things around. > I plan to remove the extended partition, thereby creating space right > after hda1 so that this one can be increased. Then I intend to create > a new swap part of 1Gb right after the new hda1 and use the remaining > space for /home. No no no no no you do not want to do this. Without an extended partition you will limit yourself to 4 partitions total and it is a nightmare to get it back to having an extended partition. Leave it as is, it does no harm and as far as you the user are concerned you end up with up to 16 (maybe 64) partitions max. > So my question is, can I do all this using QTParted? And in a normal > session, without unmouting any partitions, or do I need to boot from a > install-cd? You do this on the command line with tools like fdisk. QTParted may or may not be able to do it, I always had uncertain results and have learned to not trust such gui tools. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list