Re: disk reorganisation question

[Andrew Clausen]

Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Please could you let me know if the following is possible with parted
> 
> I have the following partitioning:-
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       962   7272688+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda3           963       971     68040   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4           972      4134  23912280    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           972      1107   1028128+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda6          1108      4134  22884088+  83  Linux
> 
> [This is a laptop with original win2k install, resized down (by parted -
> thanks) and a RH install done later.  The Linux partitions are ext2 and
> /boot + / respectively]
> 
> I now, having managed to frag my win2k install :-) want to change this
> to reclaim nearly all of the FAT space used - I need to leave some for a
> suspend/hibernate partition.
> 
> So I want to:-
>   - reduce hda1 substantially (easy)
>   - relocate hda3 to fit in after hda1 (easy)
>   - grow/move hda4 (extended) to start after hda3

Extended partitions can be resized like any other partition.

>   - reorganise hda5/hda6 accordingly so that hda6 gets all the
>     space freed up by reducing hda1
> 
> Can this be done?

Unfortunately, the ext2 resize can't resize the start.
But, you can play around with "move" and "resize"...

Andrew Clausen