John Fleming wrote: > I'm the guy that recently dd'd hda (40GB) to hdb (160GB) and then put > the larger drive in the first position, making it now the new hda. I > knew I would then be using only 40GB of the 160GB HDD. I thought it > would be easy to enlarge the 40GB root partition, but this newbie is > having trouble with that. > > I tried using a Knoppix live CD and QtParted, but I still couldn't > figure out to do it - When the root partition was selected, "resize" was > not even an option (dimmed out). > > I've looked at fdisk and parted, but I need help. Do I need to start > over copying my 40GB HDD to a properly-partitioned 160GB HDD, or can > someone give me detailed instructions to expand my 40GB root partition > to use the available free space on the new drive? > > Thanks - My current partitions are shown below. - John > Debian Sarge > > > # fdisk /dev/hda > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 4801 38564001 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 4802 4863 498015 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 4802 4863 497983+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > Command (m for help):
Well, the space you want to enlarge /dev/hda1 into is already taken up by hda2 and hda5. In order to enlarge hda1 you'd have to remove hda2. Start knoppix with the swap=off (? check the help pages if this is correct) option, delete hda2, enlarge hda1 and then recreate your swap again. HTH, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
