Resize partition

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Wed Sep 15 06:42:25 UTC 2004


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:45:59 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:

> What's the best way to resize an existing partition (say /boot)?  Does
> the rescue CD give me that capability?  See here's my problem, my /boot
> partition is sitting directly between / and the free space I opened up
> with qtparted.  I've tried mkpartfs for that free space, but parted
> errors out saying unable to use partition constraints.  So what I want
> to do is move /boot to the front of the free space and resize / to
> utilize that new space.  Is this possible or should I just re-install.  

Do you really need a separate /boot partition? You could always move
it into a directory within / temporarily, then repartition and recreate
a /boot somewhere else.

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