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Shrinking an reiserfs partition?
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:16 am
by 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?
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:37 pm
by 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.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:42 pm
by 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!!