[ILUG] Resizing partitions

[Stephen Horgan]

> 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).
>

OK rephrased: I want to grow the partition _down_ into the free 25GB, then
resize the filesystem.

>> 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
>

Disk /dev/hdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1        1657    13309821   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdc2            4865       30515   206041657+  83  Linux


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

That's the easy way out ;-)

>
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