Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 20 October 2006 07:47, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. You need to > create a new filesystem in order to get a different size. > Furthermore, partitions are addressed from the beginning, which means > that moving the beginning will completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 October 2006 07:07, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 07:47 schrieb ext Daniel Barkalow: > > You can't really do this in any straightforward way. > > Yes, he can. You know there are partitioning tools out there. > > > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resiz

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:18:41 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > I'd suggest resizing sda3 to your desired swap partition size then > formatting it as swap. And then resizing sda4 to grab what space is > left over. Then your Suse partition will remain sda4. The problem here is that the standard filesyste

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 07:47 schrieb ext Daniel Barkalow: > You can't really do this in any straightforward way. Yes, he can. You know there are partitioning tools out there. > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. Plain wrong. > What I'd do is create a new /dev/sda2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 02:02 schrieb ext Lord Sauron: > 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: h

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Lord Sauron wrote: > This isn't exactly Gentoo-related, however, you guys tend to be the > most command-line savvy group, and this is all about the command line > at the moment... > > I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. > > /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) > /d

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /etc/fstab > /dev/sda4/ext3 acl,user_xattr > 1 1 /dev/sda3swap swap defaults >0 0 ### bunch of free space > /dev/sda1/media/sda1 ntfs > ro,users,gid=user

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/19/06, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe Menola wrote: > If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, Nope. Partitions below 5 are primary partitions. If you delete one of them, nothing changes. Perhaps I undertood OP incorrectly and he wants to move sda4 to sda3. [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Joe Menola wrote: > If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, Nope. Partitions below 5 are primary partitions. If you delete one of them, nothing changes. Perhaps I undertood OP incorrectly and he wants to move sda4 to sda3. pgpn3WP6kgH7c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Joe Menola
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 wo