Partition problem, solved

[Steven Davies-Morris]

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.

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