on 04/16/2006 07:52 PM oleksandr korneta wrote:
Hello,
I got an additional harddrive installed in my machine.
The drive is split into two partitions.
hdb5 fat32 empty
hdb6 ext3 ~80% full
both are created inside the extended partition so they are secondary
partitions.
The goal is to delete the fat32 partition and extend the ext3 partition
to the whole drive without losing the data. There is no way for me to
backup this data - it is 200Gb drive. Neither gparted nor qtparted
cannot handle this task (I assume these are based on the same lib).
Presumably, parted will fail as well.
Is there any tool for linux (preferably opensource) that is capable of
accomplishing of this task?
since apparently no opensource piece of software is capable of
accomplishing this task, I utilized proprietary tool. Acronis Disk
Director from their Rescue CD did a good job. Now I have a single ext3
partition and no data is lost. More than that, after resizing, the new
partition doesn't contain any errors (checked by fsck.ext3) as it
usually happens after using the Powerquest Partition Magic software.
I'm kind of satisfied, but there is the feeling that we are missing
something.
regards,
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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
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