Partition problem, solved

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 25 October 2008 18:27, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
> > Mario Vukelic wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 11:18 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> >>> that's exactly what 'growing' a parition does.  you erase the
> >>> old partition, and write a new one with the new start/end values.
> >>
> >> That's not what I would call "grow" as it effectively destroys the old
> >> partition and its data and creates a new one.
> >
> > No, no it doesn't.. fdisk doesn't touch the data sectors of the disk,,
> > it neither writes no erases that there. If you delete all your
> > partitions and recreate them all the exact same way, there will be no
> > changes to your disk.. in this case, you just delete a partition but
> > recreate it with a larger end value.
> >
> > Since Karl doesn't even want to change existing filesystems, he wouldn't
> > even have to touch the file system resizing tools afterwards.
> >
> > However, I must stress, I'm only nitckpicking details as I am
> > psychotically compelled to do.  My official suggestion, in this case, is
> > to boot from a rescue cd, or anything else that will give you a decent
> > GUI, and use gparted / qtparted to do the deed.
>
>     Well here is what happened:
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00056ea5
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1         974     7823623+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2             975        1948     7823655   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb3            1949        2192     1959930   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/sdb4            2193       19457   138681112+   5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5            2193        4625    19543041   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb6            4626        5598     7815591   83  Linux
> karl at karl-hardy:~$
>
> This is exactly what I wanted and I did it using gparted on the Hardy
> LiveCD. This gparted is the one you see when your loading Hardy
> manually. In anycase I told it to make /dev/sdb4 as large as possible
> and it DID!
> Karl

Well that's one problem resolved, but you didn't say how things are in New 
Mexico today. Early evening now in Northern France. I suppose your just into 
the afternoon there.

Nigel.