Re: [Sheflug] My partitioning thinko

[nospam [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk]

On 19 Nov, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> 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.

I looked into resize2fs but it can only change the size of the
file system within the bounds of the partition, not the actual size of
the partition. which sort of knackers that one. Looks like I'll be
needing a copy of Partition magic then  

Simon.

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