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| Thread ID: 71148 | 2006-07-27 23:21:00 | Linux partitions driving me nuts | cold_fusion (6537) | Press F1 |
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| 474188 | 2006-07-27 23:21:00 | Hey guys, I have just installed Suse linux along side xp, well on another drive. I have two drives, one has windows the other I shrunk the ntfs partition by 10 gig for linux using partition magic. When I installed Suse it created 3 partitions in this space, a swap space and two Ext2 partitons. The problem with this is that one is 3.7 gig and the other 4.7ish. Now I have no idea why I needed two partitions like that, but now I have no space to fit the kernal source files on the partition. So the question is, how do I go about resizing the ext2 partition? Partion magic has the option greyed. So do I have to wipe the partitions and stat again? That wouldn't be too much of a problem but I was just wanting to know if there is another way? Thanks. |
cold_fusion (6537) | ||
| 474189 | 2006-07-28 01:01:00 | So the question is, how do I go about resizing the ext2 partition?Use qtparted in Linux to resize the partition. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 474190 | 2006-07-28 07:44:00 | Use qtparted in Linux to resize the partition.You would have to use a LiveCD as you cannot resize mounted partitions. Seems strange that you ended up with that partition layout? Did you just do the defaults? If you whip open a terminal window and enter in: df -h What does that show? Help if required: How Do I Use the Command Line Interface (CLI) (faqf1.net.nz Interface_.28CLI.29). |
Jen (38) | ||
| 474191 | 2006-07-28 11:11:00 | It must have been quite an old version of SuSE? ext2 is now an old file system since it is not journalled like ext3 or ReiserFS. | johnd (85) | ||
| 474192 | 2006-07-28 11:43:00 | Hey, thanks for the replys df -h gives the following.......... Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdd7 3.7G 3.4G 338M 92% / udev 503M 188K 503M 1% /dev /dev/hdd8 4.7G 60M 4.6G 2% /home /dev/hdc1 9.8G 6.6G 3.2G 68% /windows/C /dev/hdc5 65G 46G 20G 70% /windows/D /dev/hdd5 103G 90G 13G 88% /windows/E Yep I used the defaults and its Suse 10.1 x64. Ext2 was what partition magic said it was, I gather that that program has limited functions for linux file systems. Humm, I guess I'll reinstall suse and make just one partition and a swap space. Thanks for the info, I have a long way to go to be a compitent linux user :-S |
cold_fusion (6537) | ||
| 474193 | 2006-07-28 23:26:00 | I would recommend an additional partition for /home so that your data can be stored on it and will not be lost when reformatting the other partition/s. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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