expand /boot partition?

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Tue Jun 17 16:20:08 UTC 2008


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chris wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Steven Davies-Morris
> <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
>> I'll second using gparted.  I have the stand-alone CD download from a
>> few months back.  It does a great job.  I recently used it to resize
>> partions on my laptop to accommodate a new Win2K install, and get rid
>> of a bunch of space on some NTFS drives that I then gave to Ubuntu.
>> --
> 
> 
> I'm working on this right now and gparted is shrinking and expanding.
> eta 45 min.  :(
> 
> Anyway... will I have to do anything to the ext3 partition to tell it
> has more space?
> 
> ie:  ext2resize /dev/sda2
> 

nope.  gparted is the frontend to all that.  as long as you've done all
the operations within gparted and it is done and happy with the results
all should be good.

- -d


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