Re: [Sheflug] My partitioning thinko

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Is it possible for me to delete swap extend hda3 by the 5 gig and put
> swap back without data loss and without buying some partition software?
> 

Might be...

> any idea how I would go about it?
> 

Take machine into single user mode (this way you've got the least amount of 
stuff running, hence the least amount of memory in use and consequently the 
less chance of the swap being needed) using 'init s', disable the swap, 
delete the partition, use resize2fs to increase the size of hda3, put the 
swap partition back, mkswap and swapon, then 'init 3' (or 4 or 5) to take the 
machine back to multiuser.

Whilst you're repartitioning however, fdisk may say its safer to reboot if 
some partitions are in use (which is likely)...

I've never used resize2fs, so I can't give hints for using it. You may find 
that you can't extend hda3 whilst its mounted (it does contain your root 
filesystem), in which case you'll have to find your distriubtion CD's and 
boot off them into whatever "rescue" mode your distribution has.

HTH :)

Chris...



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