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[Art Alexion]

I'm thinking this would be a BAD idea.  hda5 is your swap partition.  Without 
it you have no swap memory.  It doesn't seem like it is what you want to 
accomplish anyway.

Try using qparted.  I have never used it, but it is based on Partition Magic 
with which I had success on "another operating system".  Before opening a 
partition for editing and spliting, you have to unmount it.  If the partition 
in question contains /bin, /usr or /usr/local you are going to have problems 
with qparted.

In that case you have to boot from some other disc, like Kubuntu Live or 
Knoppix and run qparted from there.

Doing this is going to break grub and /etc/fstab (I don't know if qparted has 
tools for fixing this)  They can be fixed relatively easily, but if you don't 
do it right away, it may prevent you from booting.

I say this because it appears that the partition you want to split holds your 
Linux system files, and not just data.

On Friday 12 May 2006 11:31, Mitchell Brown wrote:
> Delete your hda5, and then resize your hda2 to be bigger. Unless I'm
> missing something - it's that easy.
>
> On 5/12/06, tom mcdurmon <tommac at cableone.net> wrote:
> > my hard drive looks like:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 c drive        37.90gb
> > /dev/hda2 file ext3      35.73gb
> > /dev/hda3 extended     917.77 mb
> > /dev/hda5  linux swap   917.74 mb
> >
> > I want to create a new partition on hda2 to split the drive into 2 equal
> > size
> > drives without losing data on the drive now. Can I do this?  How?
> > thanks
> > tom
> >
> >
> >
> > ;
> >
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