Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-04 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Carl Fink wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:34:29PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > When I put in a second disk in my Windows box and could not get fdisk to work, > > I shelled out the money for ParitionMagic. Does the job--reparitioning is > > scarey, especially when there is already data on th

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:34:29PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > When I put in a second disk in my Windows box and could not get fdisk to work, > I shelled out the money for ParitionMagic. Does the job--reparitioning is > scarey, especially when there is already data on the disk. I used BOOT-IT, w

RE: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Preston Boyington
David Baron wrote: > When I bought a big disk, I put in several Windows paritions and a > Linux one. No sweat, installed Knoppix and onwards. If I get around > to dividing Linux things up, I will probably use it again. I have moved to using QTParted. It's on the Knoppix cdrom and works very well

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread David Baron
When I put in a second disk in my Windows box and could not get fdisk to work, I shelled out the money for ParitionMagic. Does the job--reparitioning is scarey, especially when there is already data on the disk. The program runs under Windows but will reboot to DOS if data must be moved (pray n

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 16:45, Vijaya S wrote: > thanks a lot , > But my main problem is i havent used parted anytime > And moreover /debian is important i will take a backup of it how do i use > parted to do that? > Regards, > Vijaya Parted is very simple to use, and can tell you its commands w

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Didar Hussain
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:45:01PM +, Vijaya S wrote: > thanks a lot , > But my main problem is i havent used parted anytime > And moreover /debian is important i will take a backup of it how do i use parted > to do that? Try nParted, "apt-cache show nparted" says: nParted is a newt-based f

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Edvard Majakari
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>You might want to check package 'convertfs' and turn your filesystem(s) >>to >>reiserfs. I did exactly that - on live fs - and didn't have any problems >>whatsoever. YMMV, though. > > Why whould Vijaya want to do that? Oh, sorry - I forgot to share

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Vijaya S
No i do not want to change the filesystem :) John Summerfield wrote: > Edvard Majakari wrote: > > >Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >>Hi all, > >>I have a server with the following structure. > >> > >># df -hT > >>FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >>/dev/h

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Beard
> The /dev/hda7 has been utilized 100% so i would like to increase it to > 22GB and /work to 2.6GB > Is it possible? If so how do i do it without data loss or > undestructively? If you don't mind spending a bit of cash, have a look at 'Partition Commander' I got it fairly cheap on Amazon. Can mov

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
Edvard Majakari wrote: Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all, I have a server with the following structure. # df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 unknown8.3G 399M 7.5G 5% / tmpfstmpfs252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 ext3

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Edvard Majakari
Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I have a server with the following structure. > > # df -hT > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 unknown8.3G 399M 7.5G 5% / > tmpfstmpfs252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda3 ext3 19G

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Vijaya S
thanks a lot , But my main problem is i havent used parted anytime And moreover /debian is important i will take a backup of it how do i use parted to do that? Regards, Vijaya Didar Hussain wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:44:48AM +, Vijaya S wrote: > > Vijaya S wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > >

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Didar Hussain
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:44:48AM +, Vijaya S wrote: > Vijaya S wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have a server with the following structure. > > > > # df -hT > > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda2 unknown8.3G 399M 7.5G 5% / > > tmpfstmpfs252M

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
Magnus Therning wrote: I don't know if parted (package: parted) would suffice in this situation. I've used it and never had any problems with it. Not if, as it seems, there's data in adjoining partitions. /M On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:44:48AM +, Vijaya S wrote: Vijaya S wrote: Hi all

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
Pls don't crosspost to different lists, esp debian/non-debian. I don't like getting bounce messages because I'm not subscribed to them, and I usually don't reply. Vijaya S wrote: Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, I have a server with the following structure. # df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Av

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Magnus Therning
I don't know if parted (package: parted) would suffice in this situation. I've used it and never had any problems with it. /M On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:44:48AM +, Vijaya S wrote: >Vijaya S wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have a server with the following structure. >> >> # df -hT >> FilesystemTy

Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-02 Thread Vijaya S
Vijaya S wrote: > Hi all, > I have a server with the following structure. > > # df -hT > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 unknown8.3G 399M 7.5G 5% / > tmpfstmpfs252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda3 ext3 19G 1.8G 16G 11% /usr