On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 20:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 19 March 2006 19:52, Craig McLean wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I want to reorganise partitions on hdb - combining some, to make fewer, > > > larger partitions. gparted says that I can't do that, because hdb11 is > > > being used as a swap partition. I do have a swap on hda, so could easily > > > manage wihout it temporarily. Is there any way to do that without > > > rebooting? I removed it from fstab and did 'mount -a', but that doesn't > > > solve the problem. I think I'm right in saying that it is not mounted, > > > in a conventional sense, so I don't know how to proceed. > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne, > > Check the manpages for swapon/swapoff.. > > > I used gparted to delete a couple of partitions and create a new one, then > created a new one at the end, in some unallocated space. Everything looked > fine, and it started the final scan - the whole disk is marked Unallocated, > and fdisk -l doesn't see anything. Tomorrow I'll try testdisk to see whether > it is recoverable, but if fdisk can't see it I'm not hopeful. > You might try fdisk to do the partitioning instead of gparted. That may be the problem. fdisk -l only reports the partition table it sees. If nothing it recognizes is there it cannot report it. Sometimes the kernel sees one partition table, and when changes are made it *requires* a reboot to see the new table. Sometimes it sees the change without a reboot. I have not really figured out the differences, but I do know that after a reboot it will see the current table correctly. I tend to stick with the tried and true command line tools because of proven reliability. > Anne > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
