Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As long as your hard disk is less than 50% full, sure...
Yes :-( Plus, it should probably be less than 45% full just to be safe, because different filesystems make different use of the space. 45% is just a wild guess on my part. There's no "in-place" converter. > What does one use to resize a partition? parted? And how about for > defragmenting it first so that all the data is packed into the first > half of it? parted will resize an ext2 partition, and there's no need to defragment it first; parted will do that for you. I have sucessfully booted from a CD, and run parted to change a big / partition into two smaller partitions for the purpose of migrating / to xfs. Note that parted doesn't know how to resize reiserfs filesystems. I believe that there is a utility to resize the reiserfs filesystem that inhabits a partition, so you could shrink it, then use any partition editor (parted, fdisk, etc.), to change your partition table to match the new size of the reiserfs. I've never done that, so take with a grain of salt and a reliable backup. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Yow! It's the land of DONNY AND UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | MARIE as promised in TV GUIDE! Seattle, WA, USA | http://www.rudedog.org/ |
