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Resizing extended partition?
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Michael Pang |
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Resizing extended partition? |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:49:10 -0700 |
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I have a question about using parted, and I'm hoping someone can clear up
my confusion.
Background:
My system is RedHat 8. I have access to parted with either the RedHat
installation CD, or with a Knoppix bootable CD.
I have three primary partitions, and one extended partition. The first one
is FAT32, the second one is for /boot, the third one is /, and the
extended partition has several logical partitions for /home, /tmp, /swap,
and for /usr. All Linux partitions are ext3. (If these choices seem odd
to you, when I originally installed Linux a few months ago I knew very
little of where files went, and what the various folders/directories were
for, so I made some less-than-optimal decisions.) Now, I find that I am
running out of space on /usr, the last logical partition.
According to the documentation, parted can resize ext2 and ext3 partitions
_only_ if the start point for both new and old partition sizes are the
same.
Elsewhere in the documentation, it is stated that parted can resize
extended partitions, and there isn't any mention of this particular
restriction.
I have already used parted to shrink the third primary partition, and now
there is unused space between the third primary partition and the extended
partition.
My question is:
Can I use parted to resize the extended partition, i.e., move
the start of the extended partition to the point where the the third
primary partition ends? If that is possible, I would then create another
logical partition inside of the now bigger extended partition, and move my
/usr parttion to this new logical partition. Is this possible?
Any input, comments, or suggestions welcome.
- Resizing extended partition?,
Michael Pang <=