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Shrinking an EXT3 partition
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Andrew Stephenson |
Subject: |
Shrinking an EXT3 partition |
Date: |
28 Apr 2003 19:05:01 +1000 |
Hi there,
I have two hard drives, a 40 and 60 gig, respectively having windows XP
pro and red hat linux 9. The 40 gig is hda and 60 is hdb, and I'm
having trouble with parted - I want to shrink my root partition for
linux (EXT3) to make a fat32 partition writable by redhat an XP.
For Example (using parted 1.6.5):
Using /dev/hdb
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdb is
7297/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-57241.898 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 101.975 primary ext3 boot
2 101.975 56219.655 primary ext3
3 56219.656 57239.406 primary linux-swap
then when I try and shrink /dev/hdb2 ....
(parted) resize 2 101.9751 50000
No implementation: this ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!
Parted can't resize this (yet)
Also a print out of parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 38154.375 primary ntfs boot
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
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