Re: Resize problem

[Andrew Clausen]

Ota Hof wrote:
> 1      0.031     2000.280     primary   ext2          boot
> 2      2000.281  8675.727     extended
> 5      2000.312  8479.621     logical   ext2
> 6      8479.652  8675.727     logical   linux-swap

> I wanted to increase the / partition (/dev/sda1) to 4GB, using
> the space from /home (/dev/sda5). I use the Parted v. 1.4.9-1.
> What I have write to resize command?

What you would like to be able to do is:

        (parted) resize 5 4000 8675

Unfortunately, this won't work, because Parted can't resize the
start of ext2 partitions.

Andrew Clausen