Re: Shrinking a disk partition

2003-06-04 Thread Peter
Am Die, 2003-06-03 um 14.15 schrieb Doug Wyatt: > But I'm somewhat confused - mostly by the differences in the > Start and End values indicated by parted, fdisk and sfdisk. The output of fdisk and sfdisk don_t differ. The first starts numbering with 0, the second with 1. Don't know about parted.

Shrinking a disk partition

2003-06-03 Thread Doug Wyatt
Hi, I've got a box with two drives in it. Hda is dedicated to Windows and hdb is currently running RH 8.0. I want to shrink the hdb2 partition to make room for a new /boot and root to install RH 9.0. I know I need to convert the ext3 filesys to ext2, shrink it to about 20GB and then reduce the p