On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:59:55 -0400, "Sarah Tanembaum" <sarah.tanembaum@yahoo.com>
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.
>

Dave Uhring has already told you how to do this with fdisk. If you are
more comfortable with resizing, rather than deleting and recreating, use
some tool to resize the extended partition, and then create a new primary
with ID 82. Resize the extended partiton to fit the space within it that
is already allocated as logical paritions. A decent partiton manager won't
let you pick a size that is too small.

I use the partitioning tools in the (non-free) System Commander, but it
looks like any of the parted flavors should happily resize and create what
you need.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

Bill
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