----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Grant" <darren.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: Re: Re-partioning > So I was able to resize my NTFS partition down to 12 GB from 16 GB... > this should free me up enough room to resize my root linux partition so > that it's closer 7 GB... or so I thought. I have a GENTOO live CD which > I used to boot from. I can't seem to get into a position to resize > partition 3 though. I thought I could move my /boot partiton number 2 > so that it started right after my XP partition, ie: 12103.660 - > 12205.634... and from there I could resize partition 3 so that it > started at 12205.635 and continued through to 18567.312. But when I try > to move partition 2, I get an error saying something about it not being > able to do that with an ext2 yet??? Anyone out there able to help me > out... pleaaasee. :) All I really want to do is make my root linux > partition bigger... > > > (parted) print > > Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes > > Disk label type: msdos > > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > > 1 0.031 12103.659 primary ntfs boot > > 2 15006.028 15108.002 primary ext3 > > 3 15108.003 18567.312 primary ext3 > > 4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba > > 5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap > > ...notice the gap of free space between the end of the XP partition and > the beginning of my linux partitions. You probably don't need partition 2 as a /boot partition anymore if GRUB is in the MBR. I can't remember the details of your original post. You may consider resizing partition 2 to fill all available space. You could then make a /boot on partition 3, and move the stuff from partition 2 into it. Partition 2 would then be empty and you could mount it as /usr or /home, or whatever you need the most. It would take some work, but it seems the easiest solution.
