Re: [Sheflug] non-destructive resizing of partitions

[Bill Best <bill [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Best wrote:

> Hooray, we're back  :o)
>
> Is there a way of non-destructively changing the size of partitions at 
> all?
>
> I've heard that this can be done if the two partitions are adjacent 
> e.g. the boundary between hda1 and hda2 can be moved but not hda1 & hda3.
>
> I need to do move the boundary between /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3?  
> Here's the scenario:
>
> [bill@archive bill]$ df -H
> Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3              11GB  9.7GB  1.1GB  90% /
> /dev/sda1             103MB   16MB   82MB  16% /boot
> none                  792MB      0  792MB   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda2             5.2GB  152MB  4.7GB   4% /var
>
> Is it easy to move the boundary between sda2 and sda3 to give me a few 
> more GB?  The /var partition hasn't grown appreciably in the last 6 
> months or so - I reckon I could shave at least 2GB off it.
>
> Does SCSI make any difference to the process?
>
> Hope someone can help. 
For reference.

Resizing an ext2 partition on a crowded disk.

http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/html_mono/parted.html#SEC31

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