Shrinking an reiserfs partition?

[seneca]

I need to get swsusp up and running, but for that I need a swap partition. So I need to shrink my root to accomodate a 1Gb swap, hur can I do that without loosing all of my data?

[smugiri]

Acronisor Advanced Partition Manager 6.0 if you want to spend some dollars.


If not, reiserfsprogs and resize_reiserfs are recommended here and here.

YMMV. All wisdom says back up your work before trying this and use a live CD or boot disk. Disk tools are usually the ax that kills the golden goose in my opinion.

[icantux]

I had a couple of bad experiences in the past with reiserfs_resize, so I don't use that anymore. Perhaps it was buggy then and not now, but I don't take chances. You don't need partition magic or acronys or whatever else that you have to pay for either.

There's a free set of utilities called "System Rescue" (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page). It's a downloadable ISO (120MB) based on gentoo.

When you boot from that CD you then run "qtparted" (I believe the command is "run_qtparted". You can then resize your partitions in a gui environment. It will also allow you to create a swap partition right away as well!!