Hello, I have RH 8 installed on 10GBs and my home directory on 5GBs. The rest is taken up by windows. I want to repartition the drive so that I get space from my root and home partitions, leaving the windows partitions intact. I would prefer to use GNUParted, since it seems to be the easiest, but when i tried to resize the home partition, it says that the partition is in use, resize aborted. This happened even when I tried to do it while logged in as root. I tried to make a 'Parted' bootdisk, but could'nt manage to. Could anyone help me with this? I'd really like to try out and play with other distros too, and besides, I could use the extra distro to see if various progs and stuff work and i'm using them right(like trying to install a new window manager without messing up the primary system). Thanks, Ravi
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Sometime Today, Ravi Desai assembled some asciibets to say:
GNUParted, since it seems to be the easiest, but when i tried to resize the home partition, it says that the partition is in use, resize aborted. This happened even when I tried to do it while logged in as root.
first unmount the partition, then edit it.
Since the partition is already mounted you cannot re size it directly booting Redhat Try this
Download the img file of parted to windows partition (assuming that it is Fat ) boot from Redhat CD and goto rescue mode From there mount the windows partition from there mount the partd img as loopback
use command
mount -o partboot.img /some/path/to/mount CD to /some/path/to/mount and run it from there
Regards
I tried to make a 'Parted' bootdisk, but could'nt manage to. Could anyone help me with this? I'd really like to try out and play with other distros too, and besides, I could use the extra distro to see if various progs and stuff work and i'm using them right(like trying to install a new window manager without messing up the primary system). Thanks, Ravi
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