Re: how to resize an extended partition?

[Sven . Hartrumpf]

On 5 Oct 2003, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-4645.634 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031   1963.828  primary   FAT         boot
> 2       1963.828   4643.789  extended              lba
> 5       1963.859   2030.273  logical   ext2        
> 6       2030.304   4444.453  logical   reiserfs    
> 7       4444.484   4643.789  logical   linux-swap 
> 
> 
> Now I want from time to time to dimish the second (extended: label 2) and to
> enlarge the first (label 1) and some other time to do  VICE VERSA
> 
> So I tried to dimish label 2 by:
> resize 2 start 2063.828 end 4643.789
> with no effect (hence I could not enlarge label 1)
> 
> I could not find this issue in the manual page
> (may be I missed this point)

Yes, you did.
You cannot move the start of an ext2 file system (see. section 6.1),
and shrinking an extended partition without respecting the logical
partitions inside will not work.

Sven

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