On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:59:55 -0400, Sarah Tanembaum wrote:

> As I posted on my previous posting, below are my linux partition
>
> This is my linux partition:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track,
> 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 256 9729 76099905 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 256 956 5630751 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6
> 957 1657 5630751 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7
> 1658 3952 18434556 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda8 3953
> 5227 10241406 83 Linux /dev/hda9 5228 5354 1020096
> 82 Linux swap
>
> Thanks
>
> Are there any good/decent intelligent tools that I can use to re-partition
> my
> single disk to satify Solaris fdisk partition and Solaris boot partition.
>
> It complaint that there are no Solaris fdisk partition since all is an
> extended
> partition instead of primary partition. I'm afraid to change it now since
> there
> are lots of data in my windows and linux installation.
>
> Solaris seems to want it disk in the primary partition with type id
> 82(which is
> Linux swap partition type ID as well) --- Can Sun make it any simpler than
> this!
> Grin...

Sun used the partion ID first, Linux authors failed to notice and pinched
it.

You can either try Partion Magic or qtparted and rezize your NT partition.
Alternatively use ghost to backup and re-install into different sizes.

There are many options, but all should start with making a backup.


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