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Re: how to resize an extended partition?
From: |
Sven . Hartrumpf |
Subject: |
Re: how to resize an extended partition? |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:28:18 +0200 (CEST) |
On 5 Oct 2003, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-4645.634 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 1963.828 primary FAT boot
> 2 1963.828 4643.789 extended lba
> 5 1963.859 2030.273 logical ext2
> 6 2030.304 4444.453 logical reiserfs
> 7 4444.484 4643.789 logical linux-swap
>
>
> Now I want from time to time to dimish the second (extended: label 2) and to
> enlarge the first (label 1) and some other time to do VICE VERSA
>
> So I tried to dimish label 2 by:
> resize 2 start 2063.828 end 4643.789
> with no effect (hence I could not enlarge label 1)
>
> I could not find this issue in the manual page
> (may be I missed this point)
Yes, you did.
You cannot move the start of an ext2 file system (see. section 6.1),
and shrinking an extended partition without respecting the logical
partitions inside will not work.
Sven
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