Dear Mike, Thank you very much for your extraordinarily clear explanation of what was going on and plan for proceeding. I read it and this is what I did.
I used the fact that my partitions were /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /home and all i had on the extended partition was the swap. I removed the swap, and extended partition and recreated the extended partition and swap pushed at the end of the drive. The I deleted the /home partition, created it again using all the free space and then extended the file system within the bigger partition. Here is what I did. 1. I Backed up all my /home data via rsync to another machine. 2. used quantian (a knoppix variant) disc. 3. Booted into quantian, 4. swapoff to turn off use of the /dev/hda5 linux swap partition within quantian 5. used parted to remove logical swap partition /dev/hda5 and remove /dev/hda4 the extended partition. using parted rm 5 rm 4 6. created a new /dev/hda4 extended partition at the end of the drive (last 2 gb). mkpart extended 112564.819 114470.969 7. added a new swap logical partition to the new extended partition at the end. mkpartfs logical linux-swap 112564.819 114470.969 8. tried to run qtparted to extend the /dev/hda3 to cover the 'gap' before the /dev/hda4 and /dev/hda5 . qtparted refused saying: that "my ext2 (3) file system was strange and qtparted didnt support it yet". 9. I then ran tunefs -O '^has_journal' /dev/hda3 this converted /dev/hda3 ie /home from ext3 to a ext2 file system. 10. I tried once again to run qtparted to extend this (now ext2) file system to the full intervening space. I still got the error message about a 'strange' file system not supported. 11. So then I ran fdisk. I wrote down the beginning cylinder number of /dev/hda3 (2445) and !!!!deleted the /dev/hda3!!!!, VERY SCARY 12, then still under fdisk I did: n to create a new partition started at cylinder 2445 (default choice) and ended at 14350 (default choice!!). Then I did 13. resize2fs -p /dev/hda3 It refused. It told me first I had to run: 14. e2fsck -f /dev/hda3 I did that and it did what it wanted. 15. resize2fs -p /dev/hda3 16. tune2fs -h /dev/hda3 17. remounted the /dev/hda3 on /home YABADABADOO!!! I now have a 90GB /home partition. Thank you very much for your help!! Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
