I have a Gentoo installation on my 10 GB hda disk on my IBM laptop.

I have three partitions; hda1=boot (ext3). hda2=swap, hda3=root (reiserfs).
There is 2 GB of unused disk space after the hda3 partition.

Now I would like to extend the hda3 partition to use the free space as well.
I discovered that parted does not work with reiserfs.

I would really appreciate if someone can give me the details on what
commands and procedures to use to extend (resize) my hda3 partition with
reiserfs on it, without loosing my installation or my data.

Tnx /Phil

On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:18:33 +0000, Philip Nystromer wrote:

> Now I would like to extend the hda3 partition to use the free space as
> well. I discovered that parted does not work with reiserfs.

> Tnx /Phil

Phil,

Parted *will* work with reiserfs, if the reiserfstools are also installed.

I recently resized my laptop partitions, both NTFS and reiserfs.

The easiest way is to burn an CD with the ISO from systemrescuecd.org.

It includes Qtparted, with the reiserfs and NTFS tools.

Boot the CD, run Qtparted, graphically reize stuff, and reboot.

Good Luck

Ryan Erickson
usenet@ericksonfamily.com
http://www.ericksonfamily.com

Philip Nystromer <philip.nystromer@telia.com> wrote:

> I have a Gentoo installation on my 10 GB hda disk on my IBM laptop.
>
> I have three partitions; hda1=boot (ext3). hda2=swap, hda3=root (reiserfs).
> There is 2 GB of unused disk space after the hda3 partition.
>
> Now I would like to extend the hda3 partition to use the free space as well.
> I discovered that parted does not work with reiserfs.
>
> I would really appreciate if someone can give me the details on what
> commands and procedures to use to extend (resize) my hda3 partition with
> reiserfs on it, without loosing my installation or my data.
>
> Tnx /Phil

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

1. resizing reiserfs: For ext2, ext3 and reiserfs: the start of the
partition must stay fixed.

2. reiserfs in general: Reiserfs support is enabled if you install
libreiserfs, available at http://reiserfs.osdn.org.ua. (It is likely to
be availabe soon from http://www.namesys.com)

Alexander


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Ryan Erickson wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:18:33 +0000, Philip Nystromer wrote:
>
>> Now I would like to extend the hda3 partition to use the free space as
>> well. I discovered that parted does not work with reiserfs.
>
>> Tnx /Phil
>
> Phil,
>
> Parted *will* work with reiserfs, if the reiserfstools are also installed.
>
> I recently resized my laptop partitions, both NTFS and reiserfs.
>
> The easiest way is to burn an CD with the ISO from systemrescuecd.org.
>
> It includes Qtparted, with the reiserfs and NTFS tools.
>
> Boot the CD, run Qtparted, graphically reize stuff, and reboot.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Ryan Erickson
> usenet@ericksonfamily.com
> http://www.ericksonfamily.com

Ryan, Tnx a lot for advice. This seems to be an easy way. I will try it.
/Phil

Oh, and be sure to back up your data first.

Ryan Erickson wrote:
> Parted *will* work with reiserfs, if the reiserfstools are also installed.
>
> I recently resized my laptop partitions, both NTFS and reiserfs.
>
> The easiest way is to burn an CD with the ISO from systemrescuecd.org.
>
> It includes Qtparted, with the reiserfs and NTFS tools.
>
> Boot the CD, run Qtparted, graphically reize stuff, and reboot.


For a floppy-size solution I also found this to be very useful:
http://paud.sourceforge.net/

paud would have worked great for me except for 2 things:

1) My laptop has no floppy drive
2) I needed NTFS support.

and as an added bonus,

3) the CD version is Qtparted, which is graphical, harder for me to screw
stuff up.


Ryan
usenetjunk@ericksonfamily.com
http://www.ericksonfamily.com

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:02:37 +0100, Joe Schmoe wrote:

> For a floppy-size solution I also found this to be very useful:
> http://paud.sourceforge.net/