Re: [SLUG] resizing partitions

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Sun Aug 01 2004 - 10:06:11 EDT


Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Chad Perrin on Sunday, August 01, 2004 at 01:25AM -0400:
>
>>I have a dual-boot system with a Windows 95 partition and a Slackware
>>partition (kernel 2.0.29). What I want to do is wipe the 95 partition,
>>shrink it to about half its current size, and add the remainder to the
>>Slackware partition. I want to do this without losing any data from the
>>Slack partition (obviously). I know one can resize Windows partitions
>>(after a defrag, at least) without data loss, but I don't think I've ever
>>heard of anyone doing this with a Linux partition. I would imagine it can
>>be done, though.
>>
>>What I've done so far is removed Windows from the lilo.conf so that it's
>>not in the boot options. Any suggestions on where I should start? Is
>>there some partition management tool that is ideal for this job whose
>>manpage I could use to muddle through the necessaries?
>>
>
>
> http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/
>

Actually, having looked into it, it looks like parted is all I'll need. Thank you.

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