Partition problem, solved

[Karl Larsen]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    Sorry Nigel, Las Cruces, NM which is 50 miles North of El Paso, TX 
is moving into winter. It was 3 degrees C this morning but will heat up 
to 16C by afternoon. The trees are turning slowly yellow and then brown 
as it gets cooler. Every fall we wish Global Warming really worked :-)

Karl


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