Re-partioning

[Jeff Ratliff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Grant" <darren.grant at discoverysoft.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Re-partioning


> So I was able to resize my NTFS partition down to 12 GB from 16 GB... 
> this should free me up enough room to resize my root linux partition so 
> that it's closer 7 GB... or so I thought.  I have a GENTOO live CD which 
> I used to boot from.   I can't seem to get into a position to resize 
> partition 3 though.  I thought I could move my /boot partiton number 2 
> so that it started right after my XP partition, ie: 12103.660 - 
> 12205.634... and from there I could resize partition 3 so that it 
> started at 12205.635 and continued through to 18567.312.  But when I try 
> to move partition 2, I get an error saying something about it not being 
> able to do that with an ext2 yet???  Anyone out there able to help me 
> out... pleaaasee. :)  All I really want to do is make my root linux 
> partition bigger...
> 
> > (parted) print
> > Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes
> > Disk label type: msdos
> > Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> > 1          0.031  12103.659  primary   ntfs        boot
> > 2      15006.028  15108.002  primary   ext3
> > 3      15108.003  18567.312  primary   ext3
> > 4      18567.312  19077.187  extended              lba
> > 5      18567.343  19077.187  logical   linux-swap
> 
> ...notice the gap of free space between the end of the XP partition and 
> the beginning of my linux partitions.

  You probably don't need partition 2 as a /boot partition anymore if
 GRUB is in the MBR. I can't remember the details of your original 
post. You may consider resizing partition 2 to fill all available space. 
You could then make a /boot on partition 3, and move the stuff from 
partition 2 into it. Partition 2 would then be empty and you could 
mount it as /usr or /home, or whatever you need the most.  It would
take some work, but it seems the easiest solution.