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Nebetsu
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| yabbadabbadont wrote: | | Nebetsu wrote: | | yabbadabbadont wrote: | | If you have a swap partition on any of your drives, knoppix will use it by default unless you specify "noswap" as an option when you boot the cd. If you didn't do that you can, from a terminal, issue "swapoff -a" to disable swap. You can use the "free" command in a terminal to see if swap is currently active. |
Disabled swap in Knoppix and it still won't resize. |
Sounds like it is time to do a full backup and repartition the disc... |
Ok. Would I have to use Ghost to do it or would I just be able to copy and paste everything to another hard drive? I know with Windows, it screws up if you try to copy and paste everything and you pretty much have to Ghost it. Does Linux have the same issue? |
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Gentree
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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seems like you're keen to go ahead without backups so please dont come running for help if you blow out your system.
devsk has given you the basic moves. One thing he did not say explicitly is that you can delete partitions in tools like fdisk and parted and as long as you recreate them before saving the partition table you are OK. Deleting an entry does not wipe the partition data. But if you save the partition table without restoring it you will not be able to find that data.
You want to change the end of hda1 but the begining must be _exactly_ the same. I see fdisk is giving you + signs , this means the boundaries it is showing are not exact. Either change units or try parted. (I dont say it's "better" but in this case I find it clearer than fdisk.)
I suggest you start to read the doc before diving in. This is one area where you really _need_ to know what you are doing before you start.
You seem to skip over the advise that is telling how to do this and just post more questions.
Your current approach of "I'm using QTparted and it's greyed out , what gives?!" indicates that you do not have the knowlege to proceed.
I suggest you get up to speed on this while you still have hda1.
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Nebetsu wrote: | | yabbadabbadont wrote: | | Nebetsu wrote: | | yabbadabbadont wrote: | | If you have a swap partition on any of your drives, knoppix will use it by default unless you specify "noswap" as an option when you boot the cd. If you didn't do that you can, from a terminal, issue "swapoff -a" to disable swap. You can use the "free" command in a terminal to see if swap is currently active. |
Disabled swap in Knoppix and it still won't resize. |
Sounds like it is time to do a full backup and repartition the disc... |
Ok. Would I have to use Ghost to do it or would I just be able to copy and paste everything to another hard drive? I know with Windows, it screws up if you try to copy and paste everything and you pretty much have to Ghost it. Does Linux have the same issue? |
Yes. You would need to use some form of backup software, like dar. You might also look into using the stage4 backup method found here: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_%28stage4%29
I have used the stage4 method a few times without any major issues when restoring.
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Nebetsu
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