On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 08:30 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Saturday, Jul 15th 2006 at 13:43 +0530, quoth Ankush Grover: > > =>On 7/15/06, yogesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <yogesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > =>> i have a one partation > =>> > =>> /dev/hda1 10 GB 5 GB(used) 5 GB(free) > =>> /dev/hda2 20 GB 7 GB(used) 13 GB(free) > =>> > =>> i want to resize partion such that > =>> /dev/hda1 15 GB 5 GB(used) 10 GB(free) > =>> /dev/hda2 15 GB 7 Gb(used) 8 GB(free) > =>> > =>hey, > => > =>Somebody asked this before also here is the thread. > => > =>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-May/msg02189.html > > > I need to explain something. The resizefs utility doesn't work. It may > work in some sort of highly rarified environment, but the fact is that it > won't even try on ext2 filesystems when the fs has flags in use that are > used by everyone. IOW, if the filesystem were to be created without any of > the flags then it might work. But the presence of the flags prevents the > use of the utility and files in the filesystem prevent the removal of the > flags. Umm, I think you are confusing the "resize2fs" utility and the various derivatives of "parted".... It is "parted" that cannot handle some of the newer flags applied to ext3 filesystems, like "sparse_super".... "resize2fs" is one of the utilities that we use to resize filesystems with LVM (or "ext2online").... It tends to work more often than not, but does require a full e2fsck prior to "shrinking".... The real problem for the OP, is to: 1) Shrink the second partition/filesystem 2) Move it to the end of the old range (leaving a gap between partitions) 3) Grow the first partition/filesystem (utilizing the gap) All of this is more involved than should be normally attempted, particularly since the OP is confusing terms like "partition" and "disk". So I would agree with your later recommendation to backup, recreate, restore.... --Rob
