Re: [SLUG] Disk partitioning, delete and resize

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 13:01:53 EDT


There are many tools on SysRescCD.org's distribution. I can vaguely
recall about three to four tools that can do that. It all depends
what you have faith in and what you prefer. Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtparted

On 5/8/07, Chris Mathey <slug@mathey.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a 320gb disk that is currently has 3 partitions, mounted and
> formated ext3 as follows.
> 2gb swap
> 30gb /
> 262gb /home.
>
> I'm building a new system and installing a new 160gb disk that will be
> the OS disk. On the 320gb disk I would like to delete the swap and root
> partitions and grow the 3rd partition to fill the disk.
> Is this possible and safe?
> I have 200+gb worth of data on it that I don't want to spend the hours
> copying from backup.
>
> Thanks!
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