On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:05:08PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 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)
That's a good idea anyway, whether you use this method for resizing or not. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
