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

[John Dunn]

Thanks for the clarification, I thought the resize
restriction on ext2/ext3 filesystems for having new
start = old start would have been applicable since
minor 2 (the extended partition) contains an ext3
filesystem. I'll try this out tomorrow!

Regards,

John

--- Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
> 


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