Re: Hard disc re-partition question

[Steven Rubenstein]

You can find "parted" on the Web, which supposedly will resize ext2 and ext3 partitions, with some limits. Never tried it myself. Might be easier to backup and repartition, depending...

SJR


Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi Muhammad

Thanks for your advice.

Can I resize each partition and add new partition as well, without repartition the whole drive and restore from backup. Which process will be easier

Thanks in advance.

Stephen


At 02:45 AM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Stephen Liu wrote:>

>Kindly advise
>1) How to display the existing partition in full detail
>2) What command shall issue to "defragment" the hard disc on Linux
>3) What shall be the safe and easy way to re-partition a hard disc

er.. can't really defragment a hard disk in Linux, it isn't as messy as
other operating systems;) so there is no real need. The file structure
will probably have spanned the whole disk tho, so you're better off just
backing up, repartition with fdisk (man fdisk), and restore from backup...

Good luck...