Re: Can you grow a primary partition into unused extended partition space?

[John Dunn]

OK, thanks for the information, I ignored it for a
couple of months until I now have family mutiny
because of the games factor. Can you lend me a pointer
on how you would handle the following resize scenario?

I want to grow minor 1 from 1309.987 to 4314.362...

/dev/sda: 0.000-8683.252 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor      Start      End       Type      FS      Flag
1          0.031     1309.987   primary   fat32   boot
2          1309.988  8032.500   extended 
5          4314.362  4902.648   logical   fat16
6          4902.680  4981.091   logical   ext3
7          4981.122  8032.500   logical   ext3
3          8032.500  8291.359   primary   linux-swap

Should the plan here be to move minors 5,6, and 7 to
the beginning of the extended partition, then resize
(shrink) the extended partition, and then move it to
the end of where it currently resides? Any gotchas in
all of this?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Regards,

John
--- Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:19:56PM -0700, John Dunn
> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I have a dual-boot RH 9 /Windows 98 machine. I
> need
> > more usable space for the Win98 games my kids want
> to
> > install. I'd prefer to expand the primary fat32
> > partition from 1309.987 to 4314.361, but can't
> find
> > anything in parted that explains what happens if
> you
> > try to increase the size of the primary into the
> > extended space.
> 
> You can't have a primary partition overlap with an
> extended one.
> You can resize the extended partition first,
> however.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 


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