RE: Help resizing partitions!!!

[Dan Didier]

Per,

In your step number 1, what is MC?

Oh, thanks for the great email!

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Blomqvist [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:38 AM
> To: Dan Didier; address@hidden; mjt
> Subject: Re: Help resizing partitions!!!
> 
> 
> This is what I have done:
> 
> A. I copy the context of "/home" to the root with
> name "/foo". I used "mc", and tested various way,
> so that symlink worked etc.
> 
> B. Then I unmounted the disk that hold my "/home".
> Run the "fsconf", that is a disk handling
> configuration.( I first tried to browse the
> /etc/rm init ect.. but failed ) "fsconf" did the
> work of never mount original "/home" disk again.
> I rebooted and tested.
> 
> C. I tested if it worked, with rebooting and
> testing if everything worked at "/home".( it did )
> 
> D. I then run the cd-bootable Linux distro
> "Knoppix", to run "parted". I didn't manage to
> create a bootdisk with "parted" on, that I first
> was interested in.
> 
> E. "parted" made the job for me. I erased my
> "/home" and "swap" disk.(I had problem with the
> erasing swap with 'knoppix', because knoppix seams
> to use that swap???  but I solved it with passing
> parameters to the kernel at bootup. )
> 
> F. I resized my root "/" disk to fill up the
> erased area, and created a swap partition on a old
> SCSI disk.
> 
> ( thats all, and it's seams to work!!! )
> 
> I choose to make swap on my SCSI disk because it's
> faster. And I hope that I will not get so many
> "segment fault", while compiling the kernel in the
> future.. etc..
> 
> Here is tha output of "df -h" and "fdisk -l" now:
> 
> Filsystem Storlek Anvnt Tillg Anv% Monterat på
> /dev/hda7    3.8G  1.9G  1.7G  53% /
> none          62M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1    7.9G  6.5G  1.3G  83% /mnt/win_c
> /dev/sda1    3.8G  2.7G  1.0G  72% /mnt/win_c2
> /dev/hda5    3.9G  2.4G  1.5G  60% /mnt/win_d
> /dev/hda6     16G   16G  423M  98% /mnt/win_e
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 huvuden, 63 sektorer, 527 cylindrar
> Enheter = cylindrar av 16065 * 512 byte
> 
>      Enhet Start Början Slut  Block   Id System
> /dev/sda1   *       1  496  3984088+  b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/sda2         497  527   249007+  5 Utökad
> /dev/sda5         497  527   248976  82 Linux växling
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 huvuden, 63 sektorer, 4111 cylindrar
> Enheter = cylindrar av 16065 * 512 byte
> 
>      Enhet Start Början Slut   Block    Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *       1  1028  8257378+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2        1029  4111 24764197+   f  Win95 Utökad (LBA)
> /dev/hda5        1029  1538  4096543+   b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6        2049  4111 16571016    b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7        1539  2048  4096543+  83  Linux
> 
> Posterna i partitionstabellen är inte i diskordning
> 
> ( AND BEFOR IT LOCKS LIKE THIS: )
> "df" returns:
> 
> "Filsystem Storlek Anvnt Tillg Anv% Monterat på
> /dev/hda7    2.2G  1.9G  261M  88% /
> none          62M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda9    1.4G  170M  1.2G  12% /home
> /dev/hda1    7.9G  5.9G  2.0G  74% /mnt/win_c
> /dev/sda1    4.0G  3.4G  677M  84% /mnt/win_c2
> /dev/hda5    3.9G  2.4G  1.5G  60% /mnt/win_d
> /dev/hda6     16G   16G  423M  98% /mnt/win_e"
> 
> -- 
> 
> And "fdisk -l /dev/hda" returns:
> 
> "Disk /dev/hda: 255 huvuden, 63 sektorer, 4111 cylindrar
> Enheter = cylindrar av 16065 * 512 byte
>      Enhet Start Början Slut  Block    Id System
> /dev/hda1   *       1  1028  8257378+  c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2        1029  4111 24764197+  f Win95 Utökad (LBA)
> /dev/hda5        1029  1538  4096543+  b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6        2049  4111 16571016   b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7        1539  1827  2321361  83 Linux
> /dev/hda8        1828  1858   248976  82 Linux växling
> /dev/hda9        1859  2048  1526143+ 83 Linux"
> 
> -- 
> 
> Pleas make commets!!!
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