Liam Bedford wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:32:56AM +0100, Vincent Murphy came forth with:
> > i need a 400MB swap partition to run oracle.
> >
> [snip]
> > what i want to do is chop 400-64 = 336MB off /dev/hdb7, move partitions
> > hdb3-hdb7 forward to the end of the disk, and enlarge the swap partition
> > (hdb2) to fill up the new 336MB free space between it and hdb3.
> >
> > does anybody know how i can achieve this?
> yes. Get resize2fs from Partition Magic (only 50 quid). I haven't seen
> a free one around though :(
I think that Gnu Parted can do resizing, but I have never used it.
Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ or
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/09/19/937790960.html
Anyone used it ?
Con
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