[vox-tech] Partition resizing

Sam Peterson vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 16 May 2002 22:55:12 -0700 (PDT)


I believe it's simply a matter doing a tune2fs -j /dev/hda# where "#" is
the number of the partition.  Use the -J option to adjust parameters.  I
haven't worked with ext3 myself though, not sure how this'll work.

man tune2fs should have more details.

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ryan wrote:

> On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:32 pm, Matt Roper wrote:
> > You might also want to look at GNU Parted
> > (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/).  I've only used it once, but I
> > was quite impressed by it.  It also supports lots of different
> > filesystems, not just ext2/3 like resize2fs.
> 
> While we're on the subject of partitions....
> 
> My new '/' partition was mistakenly created as ext2 instead of ext3, what's 
> the easiest way to convert it?
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