Alternative to using partroot/new binary?

[Leslie Katz]

This is a supplementary post to my original one, to which Leslie Polzer
kindly replied.

My goal from the outset has been to delete partition 3 (a shared FAT32
partition) on a hard drive and then expand partition 2 (my ext3 root
partition) to fill the new empty space.

I have a live cd of suse 9.2. It has on it something called either
Partitioner or Expert Partitioner. Something I read suggested that it
was a GUI front end for GNU Parted, but I don't think it matters
whether or not that's correct.

In any event, I first booted up using the live cd and ran Partitioner
with a view to achieving my goal.

I needed first to delete partition 3. I thought that I was required to
unmount partition 3 before deleting it, so I tried to do that in
Terminal. I was told, however, that the partition wasn't mounted, so I
just highlighted that partition in the list of partitions shown in
Partitioner and deleted it. It worked properly.

I then tried to resize partition 2 using Partitioner. I assumed that,
since partition 3 hadn't been mounted, none of the partitions on my
drive were, so I just highlighted partition 2 in Partitioner's list and
clicked on "resize". However, I couldn't understand properly the dialog
box which opened next, so I was afraid to proceed.

It was then that I wanted to use GNU Parted, but, as I understood it,
I'd have to do so using the boot floppy method and I was lacking the
partroot image file. That's what caused me to post to this list
originally.

However, I've since checked the contents of the suse live cd and they
include a copy of GNU Parted.

Does that mean that I could simply boot up with the live cd, then open
Terminal and, running suse's GNU Parted, resize
the root partition on my hard drive? (If so, any question of the
partroot floppy or the new binary becomes moot.)

If I can do it that way (or even if I can't, I suppose), am I right to
think that when I expand a partition using GNU Parted, the added bit
automatically has the same filesystem as the original bit?



                
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