[SOLVED] merging/resizing reiserfs partitions

SilveRo · Last edited by SilveRo on Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:22 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi!!! I am trying to solve a problem, I hope someone can give me some good advice!!!

I have a dual boot winXP/Gentoo, and after a long time of using the later, I booted up winXP; it took me just a few minutes before I felt nauseated, also because of all the crap that winXP had picked up, so I decided finally that I want to remove it completely.

Now, what I want to do is have one reiserfs partition only for my whole system.

This is what my /dev/hda looks like:

Anarcho · Advocate Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 2970 Location: Germany

I dont't know if one of your points are possible, but I tell you what I would do:

Remove the NTFS Partition or better, only change the type to Linux and format it with reiserfs. Then you can mount this new linux partition to whereever you want.

I really like to have a partition for /home/.
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SilveRo · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

OK, I solved this one, going for the option number 1.
I downloaded the latest Knoppix, burned the ISO on a cd, removed all the references to the NTFS partition from fstab and lilo.conf and rebooted. Once I had Knoppix running, I deleted the NTFS partition with 'fdisk', and after doing a 'swapoff -a' (knoppix seemed to have mounted my swap partition, that is in the extended partition) I resized the extended partition to its maximum size with 'parted'. Then I started QTParted, and increased the size of my reiserfs partition.

Note that:
a) I rebooted after every operation, even though it was not necessary, because I am paranoid.
b) You should always backup your data before messing with partitions.
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