----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Grant" <darren.grant(a)discoverysoft.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Re-partioning
So I was able to resize my NTFS partition down to 12 GB from 16 GB...
this should free me up enough room to resize my root linux partition so
that it's closer 7 GB... or so I thought. I have a GENTOO live CD which
I used to boot from. I can't seem to get into a position to resize
partition 3 though. I thought I could move my /boot partiton number 2
so that it started right after my XP partition, ie: 12103.660 -
12205.634... and from there I could resize partition 3 so that it
started at 12205.635 and continued through to 18567.312. But when I try
to move partition 2, I get an error saying something about it not being
able to do that with an ext2 yet??? Anyone out there able to help me
out... pleaaasee. :) All I really want to do is make my root linux
partition bigger...
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 12103.659 primary ntfs boot
> 2 15006.028 15108.002 primary ext3
> 3 15108.003 18567.312 primary ext3
> 4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba
> 5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap
...notice the gap of free space between the end of the XP partition and
the beginning of my linux partitions.
You probably don't need partition 2 as a /boot partition anymore if
GRUB is in the MBR. I can't remember the details of your original
post. You may consider resizing partition 2 to fill all available space.
You could then make a /boot on partition 3, and move the stuff from
partition 2 into it. Partition 2 would then be empty and you could
mount it as /usr or /home, or whatever you need the most. It would
take some work, but it seems the easiest solution.