On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tyler Smith wrote: > > > On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively > using > >> something like qtparted? First backup all your data before you do > >> anything like this. This is what I did when I found out that my RAM > size > >> is larger than my swap partition. > >> > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the options for resizing > > partitions without losing data is pretty limited. I recently went > > through a round of resizing, and while I could move swap into adjacent > > unused space, I could only alter the end of a data partition. i.e., I > > could make an existing partition bigger or smaller, but I could not > > move it. > > > > I do not know. It has been some time I did this. It worked at that time > and > I did not bother to dig deeply into it. May be other people on the list > know it better. > > > ps - your message was flagged follow-up-to gmane.linux.debian.user, > > which was rejected by slrn as an invalid newsgroup. I don't know if > > this is a problem at my end or your end... > > gmane.linux.debian.user is the news group's name. I am accessing d-u via > gmane's news server. Sorry to say, but I think the problem is at your end. > But feel free to correct me if I am wrong. > > raju > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > my advice would be to get gparted.. i've resized hundreds of partitions of different fs types and not had any lost files, excepting power failure, me kicking the box out of boredom etc...
