Resizing Partitions...

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

Hello,
I was wondering if it is safe to resize my linux partitions from within Windows using partition magic 8?

The partitions I need to resize are empty, and are reiserfs.

Thanks for your advice

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whatalotta · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:51 pm Post subject:

It is absolutely safe to use partition magic from windows. Although, I'm not sure that it will know what to do with a reiserfs partition. You may have to delete it first and make it ext2 or ext3.

Good luck!

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

Hey,
I tried to use PM to resize them, however, it wouldn't allow me to resize the reiserfs partitions, never tried the ext3 one... oh well... I made an extra partition of 5Gigs for home to be mounted on, but I thought it would be ok to keep that on the root partition, so I just deleted that once, and used that space for windows...

Thanks
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dizzey · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 40

you can rezise it from linux .
first you would run resize_reiserfs to shrink the file system.

then you resize the partition with fdisk or cfdisk.
i think you can just delete it then reacreate a partition of the same type
thath is the same size of the shrunked filsystem.

wouldnt want to try this on a partition full of data best to try it on a empty partition.