[ILUG] Partitioning trouble

[Declan Moriarty]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:55 +0100, Joe Fitzsimons wrote:
> I've just resized my windows partition with YAST in Suse 9.3, and I want to 
> extend my /home and /usr partitions into that space. Unfortunately I seem to 
> have been left with space in the middle that I can't access. Any ideas what 
> is going on?
> 
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031  33805.800  primary   ntfs        type=07
> 2      60000.579  63318.691  primary   ext3        boot, type=83
> 3      63318.691  70315.751  primary   ext3        type=83
> 4      70315.752  76316.594  extended              type=05
> 5      70315.783  75312.531  logical   ext3        type=83
> 6      75312.562  76308.750  logical   linux-swap  type=82
> 
> 
> When I try to add a new partition I am only allowed to start at the very last 
> cylinder.

/going out on a limb

I presume ext2resize doesn't apply?

You will have fun resizing mounted partitions.... To quote Job chapter
41 at you, "Remember the battle and don't do it again" :). You can
remove the /boot line from fstab, as once it has the kernel, it doesn't
need to mount /boot unless you write to it. But a 2.6 kernel doesn't let
go of /boot too easily. 

Can you afford a reboot on a live cd or summat? Then look for fdisk,
cfdisk, & sfdisk as root. One of them allows you fill in spaces better
than the others (too rushed here to look at man pages). 


-- 
        With Best Regards,

        Declan Moriarty.