Re: apologies for my ignorance

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:02:43AM -0400, David Leuser II wrote:
> Thanks! I read right over the doc line to use a boot disk (in section
> 2.5.1) and totally spaced it.  I had originally tried changing run-levels
> thinking that would make sense... left-overs from an overtired person who
> grew up on windows 3.1 i guess.
> 
> Could someone please tell me what my #4 "lba" partition is that seems to
> overlap with everything after it on the disk?

It's your extended partition.  Google it.  Actually, it would be good
to write a description of what this is, and stick it in the documentation.

> (see below) I'm afraid to
> start moving data around... if i understand the process correctly i have
> to first shrink /usr (#5) and move the free space physically after /usr to
> be physically after /home (#2) before i can increase the size of /home...
> Given this process is correct, what do I do with that lba partition (if
> anything)?  --thanks

I can't see any perfect solution.  How about this?  It wastes about
1G, but you could use that on another partition.

        resize 5 1106 X                 (X must be <= 9000)
        mkpart logical ext2 X 10260     (will be numbered "10")
        cp 2 10
        rm 2

> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-17355.750 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031     54.909  primary   fat16
> 2         54.910   1082.504  primary   ext3
> 3       1082.505   1106.037  primary   ext3        boot
> 4       1106.038  17351.455  extended              lba
> 5       1106.068  10260.263  logical   ext3
> 6      10260.294  15743.386  logical   ext3
> 7      15743.417  16770.981  logical   linux-swap
> 8      16771.012  17280.856  logical   ext3
> 9      17280.888  17343.610  logical   ext3

Andrew