RE: Question

[Mugleston, Brad]

Thank you very much.  Now do you know of a good illness I can come up with
that will get me sent home so I can try this out?

Thanks again, I'll let you know how it all comes out.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Clausen [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:52 PM
> To:   address@hidden
> Cc:   address@hidden; bmug
> Subject:      Re: Question
> 
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:42:14PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> > Command (m for help): p
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *         1       243   1951866    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> > /dev/hda2           244      2491  18057060    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda5           487      2491  16105131    b  Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hda6           244       470   1823314+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda7           471       486    128488+  82  Linux swap
> > 
> > Command (m for help):
> > 
> > Here is my table.  I want to take half of the large Win95 drive and give
> > it to the /dev/hda6.
> 
> Very easy:
> 
> (1) get rid of /dev/hda7.  You can make it again later ;)
> 
>       rm 7
> 
> (2) shrink /dev/hda5 however you want:
> 
>       resize 5 1500 2491
> 
> (3) grow /dev/hda6:
> 
>       resize 6 244 1500
> 
> (4) create your swap again
> 
> 
> NOTE: you should replace those values with the appropriate Megabyte
> values.
> 
> > It looks like hda5,6 & 7 are within hda2. With hda1 my main windows
> drive,
> > hda6 & 7 Linux and hda5 my Windows D drive.  Do I cut hda5 into two
> > partitions by resize 5 487 1491 then move 487 to 1491 to 1492 then
> expand
> > had6 to 244 1476 - do I delete my swap first (471-486) and make it 1477
> to
> > 1491
> > 
> > Is that close?
> 
> Much more complicated than it needs to be!  The FAT resizer is rather
> flexible... Just resize/move it to where you want it, and it'll do it ;)
> 
> > How do I know where the data is on my Windows D drive?
> 
> You don't need to know.
> 
> > Maybe I'm thinking too much.
> 
> I think so! :P
> 
> Andrew