Resizing

[Stephen]

On 11/03/2012 10:23 AM, Double Dark wrote:
> I find one thing strange below:
>      The start and end of /dev/sda5 is 973217763 - 976768064,
> 	* but *
> 	the start and end of /dev/sda6 is 892379136 - 969025535.
>
> Why the end of /dev/sda5 is larger than the start of /dev/sda6?
> Shouldn't they rank from small to big?
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:06:53PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
>> Thank you for your response.
>> I tried again.
>> Here is the read out from sudo -l
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *          63   892377087   446188512+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sda2       892379134   976768064    42194465+   5  Extended
>> /dev/sda5       973217763   976768064     1775151   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>> /dev/sda6       892379136   969025535    38323200   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda7       969027584   973215743     2094080   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>>
>> I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda2. Which seems to be a container
>> for all the linux partitions. It wouldn't give me the option to
>> re-size it. I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda6 which is EXT4
>> format.
The first time I resized the partitions windows used chkdsk and resized 
the partition after I signed back into windows. Here is the new readout.
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x54ca54ca

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63   838836223   419418080+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       892379134   976768064    42194465+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5       973217763   976768064     1775151   82  Linux swap / 
Solaris
/dev/sda6       892379136   969025535    38323200   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       969027584   973215743     2094080   82  Linux swap / 
Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000aa6b3

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63   976768064   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Thank you;
Stephen Oulton
<stephen_o at rogers.com>