On Wednesday 28 August 2002 03:37, J. Lucha wrote: > Has anyone attempted resizing a partition, or know enough about parted > to do so? > > Ultimately what I would like to do is check the partition table, and if > there is only one partition, and it's a fat partition taking up the > whole drive, then resize it so the drive has unallocated free space. > > The reason for this is to use it for a Linux installfest for those that > want to try it out without losing their Windows. And while we could > just as easily just have a station with people running parted from a > boot floppy, I'd much prefer to modify the installer to do this, so that > we could hand people CD's to take home if they didn't bring a computer, > or want to put it on another machine at home. > > Looking at he parted website and documentation, it seems to have hooks > for being able to do all the checks. I used fips to resize a Windows 98SE partition. That worked well, but I did backup the entire 20 Gbyte drive to a CD first. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
