Re: [Sheflug] My partitioning thinko

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:13:59AM +0000, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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...
> 

Is it really necessary to extend the hda3 by the 5 gig? What you could
do would be to make a new extended partition, and put 2 logical partitions
on it (or at least 2 ;). One would be for the new swap space and the other(s)
could be used to free up space wherever you need it in your directory tree.

That would be a hell of a lot easier (and safer) than messing around with
resize2fs on a live partition.

A.D.

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