Is it possible to re-size the extended partition without losing the logical drives ? I am running Debian 2.0 (slink) on a 1.6 GB HDD with the partition table as follows: /dev/hda1 DOS 200MB /dev/hda2 / 150MB /dev/hda3 /tmp 150MB /dev/hda4 EXT /dev/hda5 swap 64MB /dev/hda6 /usr 400MB /dev/hda7 /var 300MB /dev/hda8 /home 200MB /dev/hda9 unused 87MB
IF I understand right, when I partitioned the HDD with cfdisk, cfdisk created the EXT partition to contain the logical partitions 5 through 9. Now I am running out of space in the /usr partition. I would like to make a larger /usr partition by backing up the data from the /usr partition onto the other partitions (/home,/var,/ and the unused space) and then chopping the /tmp partition to 100MB, the rest of the /tmp partition (50MB) could now become the swap and then I could add the 64MB from the old swap to /usr and then restore the data. This would make this partition table: /dev/hda1 DOS 200MB /dev/hda2 / 150MB /dev/hda3 /tmp 100MB /dev/hda4 EXT /dev/hda5 swap 50MB /dev/hda6 /usr 464MB /dev/hda7 /var 300MB /dev/hda8 /home 200MB /dev/hda9 unused 87MB The thing is, now the EXT partition is larger - it has been resized. Will this erase my data on the /var, /home and (currently) unused partitions, since they are in the EXT partition ? Roy
