On Thursday 09 December 2004 02:19, Eric Scott wrote: > ANYway, what can I do to easily resize the root partition to use > the remaining HD space that I have? Fedora Core 2 is the only OS on my > system (my documents are on another partition) Should I just run the > installer off the CD in *upgrade* mode (fc2 to fc2 that is) and resize > with disk druid? (I assume disk druid lets you resize... I've only ever > resized with Mandrake's utilities) Assuming one partition: Boot from rescue Preferably, backup:-) e2fsck -a -f /dev/hda1 fdisk /dev/hda # delete partition 1, create a new primary parition resize2fs /dev/hda1 You can resize a partition to use free space immediately "above" it. You cannot combine partitions. You cannot resize a partition to use free space below it or disjoint. If you're using LVM this is all nonsense:-) -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
