Re: Howto create new partition?

From: Byron Miller (blahism_at_comcastt.net)
Date: 07/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:50:52 -0400

    "Xan" <xan2@ono.com> wrote in message
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    > Hi,
    >
    > I have 4 partitions in my 80GB hd:
    >
    > hdb1 ext3
    > hdb2 swap
    > hdb3 reiserfs 12GB
    > hdb4 ext2
    >
    > I want to create a new one partition with 4GB and resize the hdb3 to
    > 8GB.
    > How I can do that?
    >
    > I resize hdb3 with qtparted and I have problems?
    > How can I do that with cfdisk?
    > Do I have to delete hdb3 and create two new partitions?
    > How do this partions have to be: primary or secundary?. What's the
    > difference between that?

    I have always been a fan of deleting and re-creating whenever possible.
    I've never had much luck with splitting partitions or using any such program
    to do that.

    So my simple advice would be to delete the partition, create 2 new ones that
    you want and then create your file system.

    -byron

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