Parted

[Rick Knight]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 19:20 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>> Well parted will not work either. 
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>> It does
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>>> It sure seems from the man pages 
>>> that a lot of the so-called partition tools do not do what they are 
>>> supposed to do based on their man page. It is really sad.
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>> The man pages and tools are fine, you must learn how to use them
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>>>  This is hard 
>>> to stuff and they are wrong.
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>> It can be hard if you have little experience with them. But no, they are
>> not wrong. Why don't you use a live CD and use gparted with its nice
>> clicky interface?
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>     I can do that. I have the liveCD and gparted. I prefer parted and 
> might do it that way. But I expect it will not work based on earlier work.
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> Karl
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Karl. It will work. I have used gparted (and qtparted) numerous time to 
shrink and grow partitions, including extended partitions and partitions 
on Windows only Pcs. Boot with the System Rescue CD, load the desktop 
and then start gparted. Resize the extended partition to use all of the 
unused space at the end of the disk first. Then in separate operations 
resize the partitions inside the now larger extended partition, or use 
fdisk or gparted to create a new partition in the unused space inside 
the extended partition. This does work quite well.

Rick