Resizing a partition

[Willy K. Hamra]

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Nils Kassube wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> I am trying to upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 but the upgrade tool says I
>> don't have enough room on the / (root) partition for the temporary
>> tool/file it downloads.
> 
> You could make some room if you delete the apt cache with the command
> 
> sudo apt-get clean
> 
> but I don't know if that is enough.
> 
>> My question is, why 
>> isn't Gparted letting me take space from /dev/hdb2 to make /dev/hdb1
>> bigger?  And, as a related question, why is /dev/hdb1 by it self and
>> /dev9, 8, 7, 6, 5 all under /dev/hdb2 ?
> 
> The partition /dev/hdb1 is a primary partition while /dev/hdb2 is an 
> extended partition. All the other partitions hdb5 ... 9 are logical 
> partitions within hdb2. In theory, if you want to resize the start of 
> hdb2 you will first have to delete hdb5 which is the first logical 
> partition. But I'm not sure that is at all possible. You can find more 
> information about partitions here:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning>
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
i was never able to resize ext3 partitions! i tries parted, qtparted,
powerquest partition magic and paragon partitioner. the first three
flatly refused, in the graphical ones, the option is grayed out. as for
paragon, it agreed, and resized the partition, only to end up with a
useless resized partition full of empty files!

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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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