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[Julio C. Vergara-Heinrroth]

Guys, 
 
I have a 40 GB disk on my laptop were I previously was using WIndows 2000 PRO 
and Redhat Linux 9.0 with dual boot. 
I had a NTFS partition on /dev/hda1, a Linux boot (ext3) partition on 
/dev/hda2, a root 
partition on /dev/hda3 (ext3) and a Linux swap partition on /dev/hda4 
 
- I removed partition /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda4. 
- I created a new partition /dev/hda1 with ext3 where the NTFS partition was. I 
migrated successully my /dev/hda2 & /dev/hda4 to /dev/hda1. 
- Test if Redhad Linux 9 could boot properly from the new /dev/hda1; no 
problems. 
 
So I have now a single partition, why? I used linux on my notebook, only I have 
access to the notebook and there are only two users on my Linux, namely root 
and 
julio. I don't need/want many different partitions, etc..... I would like to 
used my disk 
for whatever I feel for. At the end it's just a single user workstation for me. 
 
My partition look as: 
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(parted) print 
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes 
Disk label type: msdos 
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags 
1          0.031  20002.807  primary   ext3 
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- I boot my computer with the Redhat CD and run it in rescue mode without 
mounting 
my filesystem. 
 
- And try to resize like this (leaving some room for a new swap partition): 
--------------------------------- 
(parted) resize 1 0.031 36000 
No implementation. This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted 
can't 
resize this (yet). 
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- Because that did not work I turned off journalling as 
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#tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1 
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and tried the aboved procedure again with the same result. 
 
Does anybody has a hint to where my problem can be?? The strangest thing of all 
is 
that I deleted the old partitions (/dev/hda1, dev/hda2,/dev/hda3,/dev/hda4) and 
created my new ext3 partition on /dev/hda1 with parted. 
 
Any comments regarding this issue is very welcome. 
 
Julio V. 
 
P.S. Feel free to reply to my private email address.