[vox-tech] resizing harddrive

[ME]

Keywords: partition, resize partition, ext2, fat32, new hard disk

http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/                     (v2.0)
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fips/fips.html    (v1.5)
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

(Above links from my linux install how to for a fujitsu laptop)

One for just ext2:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/ext2resize.html
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/powertools/6.2/i386/i386/ext2resize-1.0.5-4.i386.html

As with any operation like partition resizing, there is risk for FAILURE.
I have not had problems with Ranish, FIPS 2.0 or Partition magic, but that
does not mean too much, as I've only used each less than 20 times over
several years.

It is always a good idea to backup your data before attempting something
like this.

Enjoy,
-ME

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Ryan said:

> Currently my BIOS only allows me to see 32GB of my harddrive. I am buying
> an ATA
> controller card so that I can see the rest of it. I haven't gotten the
> card in
> the mail yet, but is there an easy way to make linux recognize the full
> size of
> the drive without having to format the harddrive or do anything that will
> result
> in a loss of data?
>
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