On Friday 11 April 2003 12:04 pm, psyche-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:04:51 -0400 > From: myrddin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Parted: Resizing an ext3 / partition > Reply-To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > I currently have RH 8.0 on my desktop and wanted to upgrade to 9.0. I > want to do this from scratch but there are gigs of data (mp3s, docs, > videos, software source) that I want to keep. When I installed 8.0 I > used pretty much the entire 80gig disk for the / partition. I was > thinking that maybe I could resize the partition and use the freed > space to create a partition that would be left alone on the new > install. > > Thanks Yes, parted has the capability to shrink a large partition and even move it to another part of the disk. You can't move the start of a partition, just the end. If you move a partition, obviously, it can't overlap the existing partition. I tried to shrink, and then move a partition with 'parted', with poor results. Ultimately lost my data and had to reload software from scratch. Never found out why .. suggest you make a backup first. If you are just going to shrink your partition, maybe you won't have a problem. Good luck. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
