On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:46:03AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install Debian in a second partition beside fedora but > can't resize my fedora partition neither with qtparted nor with parted. > parted prints the following warning message: > > Warning: You requested to resize the partition to 12103.660 - > 41076.643MB. > The closest parted can manage is 12103.660 - 71076.643MB. > Ok/Cancel? > > 12103.660 - 71076.643MB is exactly the current size I want to change... > > QTparted, started from SystemRescueCd ( http://www.sysresccd.org ), > would print to have been successful - but not resize anything... > > Also, parted seems not to be able to understand the file system of my > fedora installation. > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32kB 13GB 13GB primary ntfs boot > 3 13GB 13GB 107MB primary ext3 > 4 13GB 75GB 62GB extended lba > 5 13GB 75GB 62GB logical lvm > 2 75GB 80GB 5489MB primary fat32 > > (This listing was generated with parted installed in fedora; when I > actually tried to resize the partition I used the version on the newest > Knoppix CD. As Knoppix couldn't find an xserver working with my graphics > card I couldn't use QTparted and therefore tried to resize with parted.) > > By the way, I also used QTparted (but an older version from > SystemRescueCd) to get the space from the Windows partition when I > installed fedora... > > What can I do? Should I use some other tool - and if so, which one could > work? >
Did you reseize your file system to some smaller size before attempting to shrink the partition? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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