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Re: move 5 xxx.xx End?
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Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: move 5 xxx.xx End? |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:21:16 +1000 |
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:04:37PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
> Hi
>
> My old partition table looked like this:
>
> print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-11513.250 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 62.753 primary ext3 boot
> 2 62.754 188.261 primary linux-swap
> 3 188.262 1686.511 primary ext3
> 4 1686.511 11507.497 extended
> 5 1686.542 3184.760 logical ext3
> 6 3184.792 4180.979 logical ext3
> 7 4181.010 4683.010 logical ext3
> 8 4683.041 5185.041 logical ext3
> 9 5185.072 5687.072 logical ext3
> 10 5687.104 6087.128 logical ext3
> 11 6087.160 6487.185 logical ext3
> 12 6487.216 6785.266 logical ext3
> 13 6785.297 8291.359 logical ext3
>
>
> 1. I want to
> a) expand partition 3 to at least 4GB
> and therefore to move the extended partition
> including all the other partitions towards the end
> of the disk.
>
> (parted) resize 4 1686.511 11513.250 - worked
>
> next I´m trying to simply move partition 5 to the end
> of the extended partition to create space in front:
>
> (parted) move 5 8291.360
> End?
Ooops, I'm not sure why the docs say this. Maybe I was planning
to implement it (!) Anyway, I'm not sure it's a good idea.
> 2. After moving partition 5, can I simply resize the
> extended partition 4 using
>
> (parted) resize 4 1686.542 11513.250
That's what it is already!
> and will that keep all the partitions inside it
> correctly set up?
Yes, you can resize extended partitions, without data loss, etc.
> 3. Finally, I will delete partition 3 and recreate it
> to take up all the space up to just before partition 4
> (no need resizing, it will get a diff filesystem anyway),
> and create a partition 14 at the end too. Those seem simple.
Right.
Cheers,
Andrew