I am trying to reduce the size of a partition. In the various guides i read they have told to first resize the filesystem then delete and recreate the partition with fdisk. But how do I get the resized fs size in sectors and won't deleting the partition and recreating it delete the filesystem on it and the data with it.(I have a backup)
Nikhil
On 5/14/05, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to reduce the size of a partition. In the various guides i read they have told to first resize the filesystem then delete and recreate the partition with fdisk. But how do I get the resized fs size in sectors and won't deleting the partition and recreating it delete the filesystem on it and the data with it.(I have a backup)
tried qparted or somethng ? its a part of knoppix live cd ... also suse partioner tool in yast which might be of help if u are trying to install suse os
Harsh
Nikhil
From: Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com
I am trying to reduce the size of a partition. In the various guides i read they have told to first resize the filesystem then delete and recreate the partition with fdisk. But how do I get the resized fs size in sectors and won't deleting the partition and recreating it delete the filesystem on it and the data with it.(I have a backup)
Try qparted. It comes with knoppix. Its absolutely simple to use. Just select the partition to resize and specify the new size. After resizing you can create a partition with the new space as usual. This process doesnt result in any loss of data. I have played around with XP's partition(NTFS) with qparted and till date havent observed any harmful effects :)
Regards, Dinesh
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