Re: SIMPLE patition table editor?
From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 09/14/03
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Date: 14 Sep 2003 17:03:08 GMT
Todd Jeffreys enlightened us with:
> I have a few partitions and I have some free space that is situated
> between two partitions.
Ok, that's clear.
> I want to merge the first partition with the free space right after
> it
There is no such thing as "merging with free space". You just enlarge
the partition to the maximum size possible.
> and then resize my drive to use that space.
Resize your drive? Wow, that would be nice...
> All the paarition programs (fdisk,cfdisk,parted, etc) don't seem to
> support this operation. They want to create a new FS inside the
> space when I want to merge them.
That is because you want to resize, not merge.
> Is there a simple partition table editor (could run under windows or
> dos) that will let me just change the start and end address of the
> partition?
Parted.
Sybren
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