Some queries on parted

[Chiu, PCM (Peter)]

Hi, 
 

I would like to resize the root partiton on a RedHat 7 system

and wonder if anyone can comment on what I intend to do to be okay.

 

I have 2 disks /dev/hda1 (50GB) for / and /dev/hdb1 (50GB) for home.

 

I want to shrink hda1 into 20GB and to create hda2 (30GB) for /data.

 

To do that, I plan to

    parted /dev/hda

    print (to show current settings)

    Minor  Start        End           Type     Filesystem Flags

    1         0.031      56596.179  primary  ext3          boot

    2       56596.179 58641.525  primary  linux-swap

 

    resize  1  0.031  20000.000

    mkpartfs  primary ext3 20001.000 56596.179 

 

    set 1 flag boot 

 

Questions:

a. Will this work?

 

b. will the resized partition 1 (hda1) still bootable?

 

c. Currently partition 1 has used 2GB, but will the resize also move any files

   outside the new boundary back into the shrunk partition?

 

d. do I still need to mke2fs /dev/hda2?

 

Many thanks for your comments in advance.  

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