At 07:25 morn 9/20/02 +0530, NJ wrote:
i wud like to resize / to make room for Dos. is this possible?
theres a tool called resize2fs , but havent used it i guess u gotta b really careful with tools like this ...
Can ny1 guide pls?
ummm... till date I have only used fdisk which does anything. But you seem not to have any free space. So the only way to create a new partition is to divide an existing one. i.e. delete and then create 2 in place of the deleted one.
Now the following method I propose is fraught with danger :D, but I have split a FAT partition with it once. Hopefully it will work on a ext[2/3] partition. But you simply *MUST* backup important files.
It is really simple actually.
#1. Make sure you have the latest stable release of fdisk. #2. Defrag the HDD (I used the norton scandisk as the partition I split was a dos one) #3. Delete the BIG partition #4. First recreate the partition you deleted - but without the bottom few cylinders required for the Dos partition. #5. Then create the Dos partition.
Also, you can do ASM/DOS with a ~5-10Mb partition. So you may consider splitting your /boot or swap partitions if they have the space to spare.
hth, quasi