C. Linus Hicks wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:28 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
C. Linus Hicks wrote:
What do you mean by "turn off the journal"?On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 10:19 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
All would work perfectly if it wasn;t for one detail: QTParted doesn't resize ext3 partitions, as all of my partitions (but swap) are. So, I'm starting to believe that, if I want more space in root, I'll really have to reinstall the system.
So turn off the journal. Read the tune2fs manpage.
The only difference between an ext2 filesystem and ext3 is that the ext3 has a journal. Turn off the journal and you have an ext2 filesystem. The tune2fs manpage tells you how to do that. If you don't trust that on one of your live filesystems, experiment by creating a new filesystem (you don't have to have a free disk partition to do this, you can do it with a filesystem in a file) and make sure you know what you are doing before doing it for real. After you finish resizing, you can turn the journal back on and convert back to ext3.
Note that you can only turn the journal off when the filesystem is not mounted or mounted read-only, so you will have to do that using a rescue CD or some such.
How do I make a "filesystem in a file" ?
I also had a couple of problems: I backed up everything in my "/" partition inside /home. Then I tried booting with the System Rescue CD or Knoppix. In the first, I couldn't access any of my permanent partitions. In the second, I could only mount them as "read-only", so I would not be able to restore the "/" partition after resizing it, or would I? I mean, I must be able to read/write there after I re-create it, don't I? And how am I going to define the mount point as "/" after re-creating it?
You see, I still have a lot to learn. I'm starting to believe that this is just too much for my present knowledge, and maybe I should just "patch" things up with symlinks to somewhere in /home, at least untill it's time to reinstall the whole system again... (I should probably do it in about a year max.)
-- -- ---------------------------------- Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student Chemistry Department Kansas State University ----------------------------------
