On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:57:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > If your partition table is laid out with the swap partition directly > after the root partition, you can delete both, recreate the root > partition the same size as both together. The new root partition must > start where the old one did. Renumber the partitions and remember to > adjust fstab if you mount by device number. Then resize the root file > system. The filesystem and your kernel must support this. > > If your root partition and swap partition are logical partitions in > fdisk, this will probably fail. I do not know why, but I never got this > to work.
I've done this with logical partitions, but I use cfdisk instead of fdisk. It's moot anyway as Grant has swap before / so a live CD session with gparted looks to be required. -- Neil Bothwick ... Veni, Vidi, Visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.
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