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Re: how to resize an extended partition?


From: Sven . Hartrumpf
Subject: Re: how to resize an extended partition?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:01:50 +0200 (CEST)

On 6 Oct 2003, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>  > On 5 Oct 2003, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > > Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-4645.634 megabytes
>  > > Disk label type: msdos
>  > > Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>  > > 1          0.031   1963.828  primary   FAT         boot
>  > > 2       1963.828   4643.789  extended              lba
>  > > 5       1963.859   2030.273  logical   ext2        
>  > > 6       2030.304   4444.453  logical   reiserfs    
>  > > 7       4444.484   4643.789  logical   linux-swap 
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Yes, you did.
>  > You cannot move the start of an ext2 file system (see. section 6.1),
>  > and shrinking an extended partition without respecting the logical
>  > partitions inside will not work.
> 
> 
> I see, thanks for your answer.
>
> My two  last  questions, suppose  I delete   the last logical  partion
> (label 7) can I  then resize (dimish) the  extended partion, by moving
> the starting point but not the end point?

No, because partition 5 sits where it sits.
You need to do more partition moving (and/or cp and rm),
which needs planning and care - and good backups.
  
> Would it help to use the logical volume manager, from which I just
> have heard the name but otherwise don't know anything about?

Me neither.
Sven

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