Re: Best way to resize an extended partition.

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Pierre,

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Pierre MARC wrote:
> > Disk /dev/ida/c0d0: 255 heads, 32 sectors, 21786 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 bytes
> >
> >          Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/ida/c0d0p1   *        10        11      8160   83  Linux
> > /dev/ida/c0d0p2            12     17429  71065440    5  Extended
> > /dev/ida/c0d0p3             1         9     36704   12  Compaq diagnostics
> > /dev/ida/c0d0p5            12       513   2048144   82  Linux swap
> > /dev/ida/c0d0p6           514      1517   4096304   83  Linux
> > /dev/ida/c0d0p7          1518     17429  64920944   83  Linux
> 
> I would like to know :
> 1- If I can resize the partition /dev/ida/c0d0p2 using parted, and the
> server on line.

Yes.

> 2- How many time I need to resize /dev/ida/c0d0p2 from cylinder 17429 to
> 21786.

Less than 1 second, since resizing an extended partition doesn't
need to move any data.

> 3- Is it a fastest way to resize a partition whithout datas than with
> datas already on it.

I'm not sure what you mean (your english is a bit strange).
Anyway, I think I already answered our question :)

Andrew