Done now; it took 20 minutes. I was just getting paranoid because I've never had to partition a hard drive before.
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > I'm using parted to resize a 20GB partition down to 5GB. It's taken > > quite awhile so far. How long should I expect this particular task to take? > > That can depend on the file system type (vfat, ext2, etc), amount of file > system used/free, number of files/directories in the file system, IDE or > SCSI, PIO mode, spindal speed, RAID array, etc. > -- -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
