[ILUG] Resizing partitions

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Stephen Horgan wrote:

> I have a 250GB disk with two partitions: hdc1 (/backup - ext3 - RAID1) is
> 12GB and hdc2 (/data - ext3) is 210GB.

> The problem is there's a gap of ~25GB between the two partitions. I'd like
> to expand /data into this extra space. Parted will not resize hdc2 because
> it's ext3; anyone know how I could increase hdc2 to use the free space
> without loosing any data?

If the 25GB is in between 1 and 2 and you want to /extend/ 2, how do 
you propose to achieve that? (you can only extend filesystems, least 
extX).

> Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-239372.437 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031  12997.902  primary   ext3        raid
> 2      38154.375 239366.931  primary   ext3

output of:

 	fdisk -l /dev/hdc

Another possibility is to just create a 3rd partition with that 25GB.

regards,
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