Resizing partitions?

sparriskrigaren · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Aug 2003 Posts: 103

Hey. My hda1 looks like this at the moment:

1 - NTFS
2 - Ext2
3 - Swap
4 - ReiserFS

Is there any way to split or resize the Reiser-partition, so that I can use that space in windows? I guess there is no way to "move" free space from partition 4 to partition 1, but like I said, is it possible to maybe split it? Since there is a lot of free space on the partition.

Best regards, Johan

khel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 80

Personally, I would boot up from liveCD, mount you / partition, back up all the info, repartition your reiserfs partition, then, restore all the info.
Though there maybe some programs like "partition magic" that will be able to repartition your HD "on the fly"
_________________
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
Using Gentoo? Help the others!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:

sparriskrigaren,

You could look at parted, That will be your root partition too. Nothing like diving in at the deep end. I have no idea if it works with Reiserfs.
_________________
Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

oldsk00l · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 140

I have successfully run qtparted off of knoppix

It ran without a hitch, although, a couple things,

MAKE SURE YOUR REISERFS partition is NOT MOUNTED when you goto resize!!!!!!

Some folks have done it ok, some haven't...and the horror stories are really bad.

I recommend freeing up space via something like partition magic, that way qtparted won't have to do anything w/the ntfs partition and you don't risk anything. But as far as resizing a reiserfs partition that is right next to some free space on the HD, it should go just fine.

stateq2 · Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 242 Location: us

i have a horror story w/ qtparted and reiserfs. i tried to resize, and it screwed my whole filesystem. i ran "fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree", and that fixed the filesystem, however, it removed some vital files, so gentoo was ruined....had to reinstall. the qtparted author says it's not qtparted, but "progsreiserfs." here's someone else who had the exact problem. http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62
_________________
unite