samba - Mar 2002 - Need util to resize parition (Off Topic)

Hi all,

Sorry to post OT but I'm a bit stuck and I thought someone may know the
answer.

Originally I installed Red Hat 5.2 with 2 paritions, boot and root. I
upgraded to Red Hat 6 (kept the original filesystem) without a problem
some time ago, but now I want to upgrade to 7.2. When trying to install
the upgrade it tells me that the boot parition isnt big enough (by about
90k!) so I thought "Easy I'll use partition magic for DOS from a boot
floppy and move some space from root to boot" (theres plenty spare).
Only problem is my partition magic (v4) wont allow me to modify the
linux partions (don't know if it's a limitation with the DOS version or
just version 4).

So my question is, can I move space between the 2 partitions and what
util will let me do it (preferably free but if I have to buy something
I'd rather do that than reinstall). Maybe I should mention that the 2
Linux paritions are the only paritions on the system.

Thanks

Ash

The latest version of Partition Magic will let you do that.  Move space
between partions on my laptop. The partitions changed were NTFS (w2k)
and Linux.  They all resized fine. 

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:35, Ash Ridley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry to post OT but I'm a bit stuck and I thought someone may know the
> answer.
> 
> Originally I installed Red Hat 5.2 with 2 paritions, boot and root. I
> upgraded to Red Hat 6 (kept the original filesystem) without a problem
> some time ago, but now I want to upgrade to 7.2. When trying to install
> the upgrade it tells me that the boot parition isnt big enough (by about
> 90k!) so I thought "Easy I'll use partition magic for DOS from a
boot
> floppy and move some space from root to boot" (theres plenty spare).
> Only problem is my partition magic (v4) wont allow me to modify the
> linux partions (don't know if it's a limitation with the DOS
version or
> just version 4).
> 
> So my question is, can I move space between the 2 partitions and what
> util will let me do it (preferably free but if I have to buy something
> I'd rather do that than reinstall). Maybe I should mention that the 2
> Linux paritions are the only paritions on the system.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ash
> 
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> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry to post OT but I'm a bit stuck and I thought someone may know the
> answer.
> 
> Originally I installed Red Hat 5.2 with 2 paritions, boot and root. I
> upgraded to Red Hat 6 (kept the original filesystem) without a problem
> some time ago, but now I want to upgrade to 7.2. When trying to install
> the upgrade it tells me that the boot parition isnt big enough (by about
> 90k!) so I thought "Easy I'll use partition magic for DOS from a
boot
> floppy and move some space from root to boot" (theres plenty spare).
> Only problem is my partition magic (v4) wont allow me to modify the
> linux partions (don't know if it's a limitation with the DOS
version or
> just version 4).
> 
> So my question is, can I move space between the 2 partitions and what
> util will let me do it (preferably free but if I have to buy something
> I'd rather do that than reinstall). Maybe I should mention that the 2
> Linux paritions are the only paritions on the system.
Look for gnu parted (or it is called similar): It's a linux baesed 
partition tool under the gnu licences. It did a good job for us when 
partition magic refused to touch a win-TS partition

Christian

> Thanks
> 
> Ash
> 
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> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
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