Re: Resizing partitions in Suse 10.1

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:31:14 -0400, Curtis Doman wrote this:

Thanks, here's the results of fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track,
12161 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5484 44042197 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5667 12161 52171087+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5667 5860 1558273+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris /dev/sda6 5861 8387 20298096 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 8388 12161 30314623+ 83 Linux
deep-field:/home/cdoman #

I trust your hunch about Partition Magic and Reiserfs. And here's the
results of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6
20G 8.2G 12G 42% / udev 506M 180K 506M 1% /dev
/dev/sda7 29G 3.1G 26G 11% /home /dev/sda1
43G 7.2G 35G 17% /windows/C

Hope that helps.
Thank you.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:39:36 +0100, Robert Hull wrote:

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

I love Gparted but or simply use parted. Gparted LiveCD is bootable and a
nice gui interface.

To be honest if you could just use fdisk to delete the windows partition
then use mkfs.reiserfs to format the partition reiserfs, update /etc/fstab
to mount the new reiserfs file /mnt/waswindows. That partition is then
separate from the / partition.



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