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Zarathustra[H]
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 Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:52 am Post subject: Partition Magic and ext3? |
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Hey..
I'm just curious.. I have become very addicted to using Partition Magic in the moving around of my partitions without having to delete everything.
Right now I have a dilemma with a 80gb ext3 partition smack dab in the middle of a 100Gb hard drive, and I need to consolidate the space on either side oif it into one and the smae partition.
Is there any software, like Partition Magic, that will support moving the ext3 partition further down on the harddrive so that I can consolidate that space infornt of it?
Thanks,
Matt
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yngwin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:55 am Post subject: |
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I think parted will do the trick.
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Cmere
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: Partition Magic and ext3? |
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| Zarathustra[H] wrote: | Hey..
I'm just curious.. I have become very addicted to using Partition Magic in the moving around of my partitions without having to delete everything.
Right now I have a dilemma with a 80gb ext3 partition smack dab in the middle of a 100Gb hard drive, and I need to consolidate the space on either side oif it into one and the smae partition.
Is there any software, like Partition Magic, that will support moving the ext3 partition further down on the harddrive so that I can consolidate that space infornt of it?
Thanks,
Matt |
Partition Magic 8.0 might, I know it will create ext3 partitions, haven't tried moving them yet though. |
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Blue Lightning
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:00 am Post subject: |
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I upgraded to PartitionMagic 8.0 just recently, and I resizing and moving an ext3 partition was the first thing I did with it. It worked flawlessly.  |
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lami
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I've never tried it, but IMHO ext3 is just ext2 with some extra file (journal). You can mount it as ext2... so if PM knows to move ext2, it should move ext3.
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drakonite
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| lami wrote: | | I've never tried it, but IMHO ext3 is just ext2 with some extra file (journal). You can mount it as ext2... so if PM knows to move ext2, it should move ext3. |
Nope. You couldn't. Before version 8.0, PM would complain that it was an unsupported version of the file system (same with reiser I think) and wouldn't do anything.
It would still be possible to log into linux and use tune2fs to remove the journal, then use PM to resize, then log back into linux and use tune2fs to add a journal again.
With the new version of PM you don't have to go through all that trouble. It handles ext3 just fine.
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Cloim
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Nope. You couldn't. Before version 8.0, PM would complain that it was an unsupported version of the file system (same with reiser I think) and wouldn't do anything.
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Unfortunately I can now confirm this (long story).
I decided to delete several partitions, ext3 and reiser, and restructure one of my hd's. PM refuses to do anything, will not even delete them. |
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drakonite
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| Cloim wrote: | | PM refuses to do anything, will not even delete them. |
Thats the part that's always confused me... What's stopping it from erasing it?
If I were to give you a piece of paper and a pencil, and you wrote something in arabic... I'm pretty sure I would be able to take an eraser to it even though I can't read it....
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yngwin
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Who's to say what goes on in the mind of a closed-source application? 
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| yngwin wrote: | | Who's to say what goes on in the mind of a closed-source application? |
lol
Is there anything much for efforts for opensource equivalents of PM?
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