Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread studenten wg
On Sunday 18 February 2001 18:15, Moritz Schulte wrote: > studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? ( > > in single user mode i suppose )... > > No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called "device file". Device > files are th

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? ( > in single user mode i suppose )... No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called "device file". Device files are the interfaces to the device drivers. If you access /dev/hda5, Linux

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
Pierfrancesco Caci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > now a df shows me my /dev/hda5 ( that's where my root lies ) is 500M big... > > but in fdisk it says /dev/hda5 is still 1G... > > you resized only the filesystem, to resize the partition also there is > another tool, the name of which escapes my

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "studenten" == studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now a df shows me my /dev/hda5 ( that's where my root lies ) is 500M big... > but in fdisk it says /dev/hda5 is still 1G... you resized only the filesystem, to resize the partition also there is another tool, the name of whic

Re: ext2resize: anyone know know to use it?

2000-03-31 Thread Peter S Galbraith
---daniele--- wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 03:42:07PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Does anyone know what to do with ext2resize? > > ext2resize dosen't resize partition. > You can resize filesystem by ext2resize and partition by fdisk. > > You can use parted for resize fs and parti

Re: ext2resize: anyone know know to use it?

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does anyone know what to do with ext2resize? > The docs quickly explain how to resize a filesystem in a file, > but not one in a partition. I assume the partition table must be > changed as well but it does say how, and in what order. I can only

Re: ext2resize: anyone know know to use it?

2000-03-31 Thread ---daniele---
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 03:42:07PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Does anyone know what to do with ext2resize? > The docs quickly explain how to resize a filesystem in a file, > but not one in a partition. I assume the partition table must be > changed as well but it does say how, and in wha