2005/7/27, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have some dead space on my disk before logical partition hda7 that I > want to add to hda7. Parted is not letting me resize or move the > partition to include the dead space. Is there another utility that > might or should I just plan on restoring from backup? > > Does anyone know why parted could grow a partition from the end but > not the beginning? > > Thanks > > Dave Berg > >
The best solution is ot back up your partition dd if=/dev/hda7 | gzip myfile.gz good if your partition is almost full or tar czvf output.tar.gz /hda7_mountpoint if partition is not so full (remember to unmount anything that is in a child directory of /hda7_mountpoint) then create new partition and restore guznip -c myfile.gz | dd of=/dev/hda7 or cd /hda7_mountpoint tar xzvpf output.tar.gz PAolo
