On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:59, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:28 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > > > > > >>C. Linus Hicks wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>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. > >>> > >>> > >>What do you mean by "turn off the journal"? > >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. Are they mounted?? check $mount > In the second, I could only mount them as "read-only", you can remount it read - write $ mount -o remount,rw /path/to/mount > 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? I don't follow. (actually I did't follow the thread) if you're booted into Knoppix or the rescue-cd, just fire up vim /mnt/???/etc/fstab edit the line that says which is your "/" partition to point to the new place where your "/" resides. > > You see, I still have a lot to learn. I'm starting to believe that this > is just too much for my present knowledge, Experience is the best teacher, but if you don't start, experience won't come a-running. > 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 > ---------------------------------- -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 11:27:11 up 1:38, 6 users, 0.09, 0.15, 0.26
