safe way of resizing a partition?

pau · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: safe way of resizing a partition?

Hi,

I have been trying to enable hibernation in my laptop and I would like to resize my swap partition on, say, 30% to allow swsusp2 to save all my RAM in it... My current swap partition is of ~500MB and my RAM 1GB... So I should go to 1,3GB at least...
Is there any safe way to do this without dammaging the data in the other partitions? I know how to resize a partition, this is not the question (fdisk, qtparted...) I just would like no to have to repeat the installation and configuration of gentoo (which took me several days :roll:

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HermanR · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure what exactly your question is, since you know about (qt)parted, which is designed for the purpose you mentioned.

greenbean · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 38

Take a look at the SysRescueCD: http://www.sysresccd.org/ .

I found it mentioned here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=271073&highlight=resize+reiser

I just removed WinMe from my dual-boot laptop so I would have more space. I copied the reiserfs data onto another machine via SMB, removed the partition, created a new one, restored the data, and finally resized the reiser fs using... resize_reiserfs.

It worked for me.