Re: Can you grow a primary partition into unused extended partition space?

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi John,

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:11:33PM -0800, John Dunn wrote:
> OK, thanks for the information, I ignored it for a
> couple of months until I now have family mutiny
> because of the games factor. Can you lend me a pointer
> on how you would handle the following resize scenario?
> 
> I want to grow minor 1 from 1309.987 to 4314.362...
> 
> /dev/sda: 0.000-8683.252 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor      Start      End       Type      FS      Flag
> 1          0.031     1309.987   primary   fat32   boot
> 2          1309.988  8032.500   extended 
> 5          4314.362  4902.648   logical   fat16
> 6          4902.680  4981.091   logical   ext3
> 7          4981.122  8032.500   logical   ext3
> 3          8032.500  8291.359   primary   linux-swap
> 
> Should the plan here be to move minors 5,6, and 7 to
> the beginning of the extended partition, then resize
> (shrink) the extended partition, and then move it to
> the end of where it currently resides? Any gotchas in
> all of this?

It looks much simpler than this.

Any reason why this wouldn't work:

        (parted) resize 2 4314 8032
        (parted) resize 1 0 4313

Cheers,
Andrew