>> Well parted can't do it:
>>>> (parted) move
>> Partition number? 2
>> No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!
>> Parted can't resize this (yet).
>>>> I'll try qtparted tonight when I get home.
> Have you actually tried temporarily removing journaling with tune2fs
> yet?
>> tune2fs [-f] ^has_journal /dev/hdc2
> parted stuff
> tune2fs has_journal /dev/hdc2
>
I tried qtparted last night. With the fs as ext3 I can neither move nor
resize the partition. After removing the journal and converting to ext2,
I can resize the partition but only by making it smaller. I cannot move
the partition (the move option is greyed out).
So the only way I can think to get this done is to shrink the partition
and make a new partition at the end of the drive, move data to that,
delete the old partition and recreate it including the 25GB, move data
back and _hope_ I can enlarge the partition into the free space at the end
of the drive.
Or just think of some other use of the 25GB.
Steve
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