Funny example of using PQ PartitionMagic. I've got one NTFS partition for compartibility and one extended partition with couple of ext3 partitions (Fedora Core 5) and two ReiserFS from previous system (SuSE). I want to delete the last two partitions and distribute that space between ext3 partitions. The funny thing about Partition Magic 8.01 is that when I tried to resize ext3 (whitch AFAIK is supported) its said to me that fs type is not supported. Ok, so I have reverted changes and thought that if changes aren't made then nothing is to be done... I was really surprised when at the next boot GRUB told me not to boot Fedora, but showed me its own console. It took me a while to understand what happend. Somehow numbers that reflect my partitions have changed (PartitionMagic rules I guess :) ), e.g. was (hd0,7) became (hd0,6). Since then I'm looking for opensource alternative to PartitionMagic too. On 4/17/06, oleksandr korneta <mai11ist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > By default, FC5 seems to choose to make LVM partitions, which would make > > it fairly easy. I don't know about converting existing partition/data > > into LVM though ? > yep. This is the whole point. > I dont have any experience, with LVM (although this is not a problem). I > probably try it next time at some fresh install. But this time I have > linux box, which works for me just fine for a long time already. And I > don't want to mess anything up there. > The task is to add an additional drive and change the partition table in > a way I've mentioned. I believe that Partition Magic for windows can > handle such thing with no problem. But there is no windows here and I'm > wondering if there is anything similar for linux. >
