[CALUG] resizing a partition with parted, no need to preserve data?

[Rajiv Gunja]

I would suggest, fdisk sda and mark sda4 to "5" than "f" Once saved, try
your hand at partd.

Since all slices under sda4 are Linux, Windows should not be able to see
them.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


2008/10/25 Ed Browne <edward_d_browne at yahoo.com>

> Hello,
>     I'm trying to clean up a balkanized hard drive by merging two
> partitions which formerly held a bootable OS, /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda7.
>   They are consecutive, so I deleted the second one, sda7 (note that
> my current Ubuntu install was on /dev/sda8, but it became /dev/sda7,
> so that one will have to be remain untouched.)  This is the partition
> table now:
>
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1         702     5632000   27  Unknown
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2   *         702         893     1536000    7  HPFS/NTFS
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda3             893        6758    47109375    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda4            6759       12161    43399597+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5            9215        9477     2100481   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda6            9477       10593     8972271   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7            6759        9106    18860247   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8            9107        9214      867478+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
>
> I want to expand sda6 to reclaim blocks 10,594-12,161, but nothing
> I can do with "parted" works:
>
> root at bongo:~# parted
> GNU Parted 1.7.1
> Using /dev/sda
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) check 6
> Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
> (parted) resize 6 9477 12161
> Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
> (parted) quit
> Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
>
> root at bongo:~# uname -a
> Linux bongo 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 17:32:09 UTC 2008 i686
> GNU/Linux
> root at bongo:~#
>
> I don't need to preserve any data on /dev/sda6 (I made a new
> file system several times, because I read that ext3 did not
> support resizing, but the result was no better with ext2
> or reiserfs.)
>
> Can I do it with fdisk just by deleting the sda6 partition,
> and making a new sda6 partition that uses all the available
> space?    Is there a smart way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance - Ed
>
>
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