Re: deleting and resizing ext2 partitions

[Tilman Sauerbeck]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:37:14 +1000 Andrew Clausen <address@hidden>
wrote:

> So, you searched for "delete" in the documentation, and didn't find
> it?

Yes of course I found it, but I just wanted to be sure this could be
done this easily since it was the first partition on the disk. I didn't
know parted was that powerful :)

> > I am not sure whether this is possible, please comment on this. IMHO
> it
> > would be great if there was another parted HOWTO or more examples...
> 
> I'm accepting contributions...

Well, when I understand parted better I'll think about writing
documentation.

> > One final question:
> > parted doesn't get the C/H/S values for my disk right, i.e. the
> values
> > are not the same like the ones the BIOS shows me. The values from
> the
> > BIOS seem to make more sense to me, so I should append
> > "hda=right-values" to my boot parameters, right?
> 
> This doesn't matter, since you're not using anything that needs to use
> the CHS values.

Ah, I see.

Thank you very much for your explanations (and for parted!),
        Tilman

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