Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-14 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 14 December 2004, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 14 December 2004 19:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian.org >wrote: >> After reboot, partitioning /dev/hdd and formating /dev/hdd partitions, >> I fdisk -l /dev/hdc (and all drives for that matter) and I was >> surprised

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-14 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 19:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After reboot, partitioning /dev/hdd and formating /dev/hdd partitions, > I  fdisk -l /dev/hdc (and all drives for that matter) and I was > surprised to see that the partition table is now correct after rebooting > -- hdc was the drive t

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Watkins
Also, the version of parted in sarge doesn't have reiserfs support because libreiserfs isn't in sarge - does anyone know why libreiserfs was pulled? Sounds to me like the moral of the story is "use LVM"! Sam Package: parted Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing p

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > QTparted is a very dangerous program. Rubbish, unless you can provide some evidence? I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without any problems. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Dnia 13-12-2004 10:56,Francois Cerbelle napisał: > Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20AM +0200, David Baron ecrit : >> On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is >> > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. >> >> B

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >*snip* >> >>To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and >>fdisk, then you'll be backing up anyway ... So, do you backu

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *snip* > >To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and >fdisk, then you'll be backing up anyway ... So, do you backup, then try >qtparted :-) > >Dave. >-- >Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL P

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 December 2004 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting. Will this work if I have to fix partitions that do not > end on cylinder boundaries? If it does in fact read them at all -- don't dare. At least in my case it complains and exits leaving my partitions, for better or for wo

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:50 -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without > >any problems. > > Interesting. Will this work if I have to fix partitions that do not > end on cylinder boundaries? > > > fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > Dis

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >> QTparted is a very dangerous program. > >Rubbish, unless you can provide some evidence? > >I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without >any

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20AM +0200, David Baron ecrit : > On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is > > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. > > Back it up first. > PartitionMagic, if it does not complai

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. Back it up first. PartitionMagic, if it does not complain about the partitions, will usually do just fine. QTparted is a very dang

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of > woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var > is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My > question is

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Leonard Chatagnier_, on 12/12/04 08:22,typed: Please copy any response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I can't cope with all the lists messages when subscribed. Then why don't you start using gmane newsgoups? http://gmane.org/ With this you can read the mailing ist in a newsreader and you can

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +, Leonard Chatagnier ecrit : > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall > of woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now > /var is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. > My question is: C

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Leonard Chatagnier (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of > woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var > is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My > question is: Can I resize

Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My question is: Can I resize the partitions without losing data? I have the Woody 7 CD i

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging *complete*

2002-10-29 Thread Michelle Storm
Ok, Sorry for the LONG reply back on the status of this. 1) I had to reformat, I damaged it to the point it wouldn't start for nothing. 2) I ended up learning a lot, (was down for 4 - 5 days though) When I followed the suggestions given.. It all seemed to work fine.. until I rebooted my computer

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-26 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 October 2002 9:08 am, Michelle Storm wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible and if so, HOW, to rearrange my > current partitions. Most of the data on /usr/local I am not worried about, If you are going to do this a lot and want to b

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
snipped > Do I need to edit/update "fstab" after this? (just making sure) > > Almost done reading up on "parted", so hopfully I can post a solved > to this soon. > > -- > Michelle Alexia "Jade" Storm short answer: yes Shawn __ Do you Yah

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-25 Thread Michelle Storm
> Good point. I didn't really think before I blurted out "Yup." :) > > The quick-n-dirty way that I'd do it is: > > mkdir /usr/templocal > cp -rp /usr/local /usr/templocal > umount /usr/local > rmdir /usr/local > mv /usr/templocal /usr/local > > Ok, so it's not really that much quicker. 5 steps

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Michelle Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 02:26:44 -0700]: > > Now, as for recommendations, here are mine. For starters, quit using > > /usr/local. I prefer to have all of my users (myself included) store ALL > > of their personal files within their home directory. This makes managing > > it a

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 04:17, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > could I move the /usr/local to /usr -- mv /usr/local /usr/ > > > and as for var, can I do the same thing. > > > > Yup. > > I dunno, something there just doesn't smell quite right. I'd

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Michelle Storm
Ok, was told this would be more useful as far as partition information #parted -s /dev/hda print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes Disk label type: msdos MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 7.844 primary ext3boot 2

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > could I move the /usr/local to /usr -- mv /usr/local /usr/ > > and as for var, can I do the same thing. > > Yup. I dunno, something there just doesn't smell quite right. I'd do something like this: $ umount /usr/local $ mkdir /mnt/tem

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Now, as for recommendations, here are mine. For starters, quit using > /usr/local. I prefer to have all of my users (myself included) store ALL > of their personal files within their home directory. This makes managing > it all much easier.

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 03:08, Michelle Storm wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible and if so, HOW, to rearrange my > current partitions. Most of the data on /usr/local I am not worried about, > as I have it on cd's (most of it's mp3's). My personal home directory I > do not want to loose the da

Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Michelle Storm
I'd like to know if it's possible and if so, HOW, to rearrange my current partitions. Most of the data on /usr/local I am not worried about, as I have it on cd's (most of it's mp3's). My personal home directory I do not want to loose the data. The rest is only important as far as what the system ne

partition resizing application

1999-05-21 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello all ... anyone here know of an application w/c can allow me to resize my ext2 partition to make room for a BSD partition ? TIA, Chad