On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:59, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
C. Linus Hicks wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:28 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>C. Linus Hicks wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 10:19 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>>>All would work perfectly if it wasn;t for one detail: QTParted
doesn't
>>>>resize ext3 partitions, as all of my partitions (but swap) are. So,
I'm
>>>>starting to believe that, if I want more space in root, I'll really
have
>>>>to reinstall the system.
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>>>So turn off the journal. Read the tune2fs manpage.
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>>What do you mean by "turn off the journal"?
>The only difference between an ext2 filesystem and ext3 is that the ext3
>has a journal. Turn off the journal and you have an ext2 filesystem. The
>tune2fs manpage tells you how to do that. If you don't trust that on one
>of your live filesystems, experiment by creating a new filesystem (you
>don't have to have a free disk partition to do this, you can do it with
>a filesystem in a file) and make sure you know what you are doing before
>doing it for real. After you finish resizing, you can turn the journal
>back on and convert back to ext3.
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>Note that you can only turn the journal off when the filesystem is not
>mounted or mounted read-only, so you will have to do that using a rescue
>CD or some such.
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How do I make a "filesystem in a file" ?
I also had a couple of problems: I backed up everything in my "/"
partition inside /home. Then I tried booting with the System Rescue CD
or Knoppix. In the first, I couldn't access any of my permanent
partitions.
Are they mounted??
check
$mount
In the second, I could only mount them as "read-only",
you can remount it read - write
$ mount -o remount,rw /path/to/mount
so I
would not be able to restore the "/" partition after resizing it, or
would I? I mean, I must be able to read/write there after I re-create
it, don't I?
And how am I going to define the mount point as "/" after
re-creating it?
I don't follow. (actually I did't follow the thread)
if you're booted into Knoppix or the rescue-cd, just fire up
vim /mnt/???/etc/fstab
edit the line that says which is your "/" partition to point to the new
place where your "/" resides.
You see, I still have a lot to learn. I'm starting to believe that this
is just too much for my present knowledge,
Experience is the best teacher, but if you don't start, experience won't
come a-running.
and maybe I should just
"patch" things up with symlinks to somewhere in /home, at least untill
it's time to reinstall the whole system again... (I should probably do
it in about a year max.)
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