Fwd: [ILUG] Resizing partitions

[Conor Wynne]

> If  you have enough free space in another device (as much as used
> space in hdc2) you can:
> 1- Save an hdc2 image on that other device (dd is your partner here).
> 2-Delete partition hdc2 and create a new hdc2 using the whole empty space.
> 3-dd again for putting all your data back in the new hdc2.
>
> Simple + secure = perfect
>
> If you have that empty space, of course.

You will still have to use parted afterwards as it will be exactly the
same size as before otherwise.

> Andres
>
> 2005/5/31, Stephen Horgan <horganst at eircom.net>:
>> Hi,
>> 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?

ext3online ?

>> 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
>>
>> Steve

Regards
Conor.

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