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)
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Generally it is not a very good idea to resize the partition especially if you have not used LVM.
what will happen is that if you delete the partition (which if not the last partition on the HD) hen u will find missing harddisk space!
made sense? no? if your prsent partition is of say 2GB and u resize it to 1 GB then there is a chance the remaining 1GB will become unusable!
Chirag
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From: chirag radhakrishnan chiragrkn@yahoo.com
Generally it is not a very good idea to resize the partition especially if you have not used LVM.
what will happen is that if you delete the partition (which if not the last partition on the HD) hen u will find missing harddisk space!
made sense? no? if your prsent partition is of say 2GB and u resize it to 1 GB then there is a chance the remaining 1GB will become unusable!
Chirag
I really don't think that will be the case here. I think he may want to resize an NTFS partition. My experience with qparted was limited but I am sure that if I resized a partition, I could use the remaining space to create a new partition.
Regards, Dinesh
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On 5/18/05, Dinesh Joshi dinesh_pro@hotmail.com wrote: ...snip..
I really don't think that will be the case here. I think he may want to resize an NTFS partition. My experience with qparted was limited but I am sure that if I resized a partition, I could use the remaining space to create a new partition.
I agree provided the remaining space is within an extended partition or there is room to define a primary or extended partition. Remember to back up your data before messing with partitions.
rgds, akk
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