Re: Resizing partitions in Suse 10.1

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 22:54, Jothar <kellkore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
alt.os.linux.suse:

Greetings,
I've got the Suse 10.1 on my Gateway CX2620, and have been using
it quite extensively. It's dual booted with windows xp tablet edition
as the primary hard drive, and Suse 10.1 is in the extended partition
with Reiserfs as the format for / and /home. Grub is the bootloader.

Could you open a terminal and su to root then issue the command

fdisk -l

please, and copy/past the results here.

It would also be useful to copy/paste the results of

df -h


My question is this, I would like to delete the Windows partition
and just use linux.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

However in Yast it gives me the opportunity to
resize the windows partition and delete it. However, it does not give
me the opportunity with the extended partition, and by inclusion the
linux partitions.

Moving and resizing partitions can be problematic and - in most cases -
can also be avoided.

Depending on the partition sizes, you may decide to move your /home to
the newly freed space then reuse the old /home for something else.

I've thought about Partition Magic by Norton.

I wouldn't trust Partition Magic with Reiserfs.

[snip]
Any help would be appreciated.

HTH
--
Robert HULL

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