· Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 7:02 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: >> I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. >> >> /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) >> /dev/sda3 = linux-swap >> /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1) >> >> Where sda2 should be used to be and XFS partition for Kubuntu. >> >> My question is thus: how would I tack that free space onto sda4? I >> don't want to reinstall SuSE if I don't have to. >> >> Throwing out an educated guess, do I have to delete sda3, and then >> make sda4 bigger, leaving enough space for sda5 (linux-swap)? > > If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3,
No, it doesn't. The first four partitions on a hard drive are "fixed", ie. partition 4 will always stay partition 4 and it's perfectly valid to have, eg. sda1, sda3 & sda4 but no sda2. > so your Suse fstab will require > changes to reflect this. In theroy, resizing what was sda4 to fill the space > gained by deleting sda3 should work. No, it won't. Problem (probably) is, that the available space is "in front of" sda4. So, if he'd delete sda3 as well, he could move sda4 to the beginning of the disk. Partition Magic (commercial) can be used for this; parted as well? > Of course, backing up any data of importantce is highly recommended before > doing anything. Absolutely! Alexander Skwar -- Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
