On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 07:59 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote: > > on 04/17/2006 07:53 AM Aaron Konstam wrote: > > >> -- > > Well this seems like a job for a backup system. Yoi don't say what the > > sizes of the partitions are nor whether emply menas of size reated thasn > > zero but without contents. > > this is 200GB drive. > vfat partition size is 32Gb (the maximum windows is capable to work with). > ext3 is the rest. And the latter one is ~80% full. > > > > Anyway the obvious thing to do if your drive is of manageable size ( 1 > > terabyte for example) is to backup the data in the ext3 partition , > > repartition and bring the data back. But that ios so obvious I assume > > your ext3 partition is humongous. Is that true? > it is not that large, as you can see, but I dont have that much free > space on any other drive currently. Backuping the data on DVD will be > the waste of time. > > > Another option is to reformat the fat32 partition to be ext3 and then > > parted might work, > Can you be more specific here? You mean parted will handle that job if > the other partition will be ext3 as well? Why would it be so? > I thought I had an idea but on further thought it was not a good idea. > -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
