On 04/07/16 23:34, jd1008 wrote: > Hi all. > I have a dos partitioned drive. > partition 1 has windoze > there is no partition 2 (it was deleted and it's space added to partition 1, > using the old software called "Partition Magic". > partition 3 is fedora > partition 4 is fedora's swap. > > Fedora partition is only using 3% of it's available space: > $ df -k / > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 903432024 24820728 832696536 3% / > > $ df -k /sda1 > /dev/sda1 42015740 41972804 42936 100% /sda1 > > > Can parted handle > 1. shrinking partition 3 (i.e. starts at a numerically higher block > number) > 2. fixing the installed grub so that I can still boot fedora, > or would I have to boot a live fedora and install grub from > live fedora? > 3. adding the freed space to partition 1 so that windoze can > see it and use it as part of it's partition 1? > -- having recently converted a win7 laptop to a dual boot, i would suggest you take time to pull "gparted" and forget about using older "parted". you can pull latest release from; http://gparted.org/livecd.php do read the page and links to insure you are familiar with what you wish to do. > P.S: I will be backing up sda3, so no fear there. Ditto with sda1. > -- wise decision. > Thanx. > -- twelcom. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
