ext3 resizing

_hephaistos_ · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject: ext3 resizing

hello,

I have installed gentoo 2004.1 successfully on an ext3 partition.
but now (after i emerged all necessary progs) my extension is at 97% usage...
how can I resize this partition? I tried qtparted, but resizing is not supported...
can i change to reiserfs or anything else and resize then???

any suggestions?

thx in advance!!

eNTi · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:41 pm Post subject:

i don't know, if you can resize an existing ext3 partition, but if you want one try LVM.
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_hephaistos_ · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject:

wow thx - i'm blind

i googled around and it's here...

i try this out...

thx again!

eNTi · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 9:07 am Post subject:

you could have followed my linke as well

.

this thread could be of interest too, for you.
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_hephaistos_ · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject:

well thx again.

bute these are not the exactly same problems as I have.

I will try to:
-> copy all data from the / partition to a bigger partition running under WinXP.
then restart with the LiveCD -> resize the partition and formating of course.
then reboot with knoppix -> start samba -> recopy all data from the XP comp and try to reboot.

would this work?

thx

eNTi · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

depends. you'd need fat to _securly_ copy you data to a windows partitition. winxp usually comes with ntfs, which i would not recommend trying to write to... i'm not sure about samba on this. if you used fat32 you'd not need samba at all. you will of course have problems with permissions, i'm not sure what samba will do to them. it's not a good idea, i'd recommend you do it linxu->linux copy or reinstall.
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_hephaistos_ · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject:

hello,

yes I thought so later too.
because of the permissions and so on.
the XP is FAT32....
Perhaps will I install Knoppix there and copy the files linux<->linux...

this have to be work or wouldn't it?

thx again

eNTi · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject:

so you don't have a spare partition, you can copy the data meanwhile? you don't need to install ANY os to copy your data. just dl the minimal 2004.1 llivecd and follow the instructions in the thread i gave you the link to. there's no magic to it and it's working great. i've recently transfered 2 complete gentoo installations to other disks.
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_hephaistos_ · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 9:25 am Post subject:

juhuu, it seems that it worked

i just tared all root directories (keep permissions...) fdisked the partition (liveCD) and tared the directories back

chrooted to the partition -> lilo returned a "Warning"
restarted and entered gentoo -> executed lilo again and there was no error.
this whole process took 1,5h -> 5GB.

thx