Re: Did I stump the band?

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Sunday, Mar 27, 2005, at 23:49 US/Central, Robert G. (Doc) Savage 
wrote:
> ... with my question about parted? It's rare to get no responses at 
> all.

It's a holiday.  Sort of.  Been spending the day doing Spring cleaning 
and minor repairs around the house.

> Has anyone on this list actually used parted before, successfully or
> otherwise?

I've used parted before quite successfully to resize and move 
partitions.  Unlike fdisk, it writes changes right away, a feature I 
don't care for.  From looking over your previous e-mail, it looks as 
though you've got the specs right.

Personally, I'd get more familiar with parted before using it by 
practicing on a spare disk, especially if this is the first time you've 
used parted.  It does things a little differently than fdisk, et al.  I 
also recommend using qtparted.  It has a nice GUI interface, allows you 
to review your changes before committing them, and is available on 
Knoppix 3.6 (K > System > Qtparted).

Resizing the partition does not necessarily resize the filesystem on 
that partition.  I don't recall if parted automatically resizes the 
filesystem or not.  So you may have to run resize2fs after you've 
expanded your partition.  I do know that qtparted resized NTFS 
partitions on WinXP-Pro just fine.  Again, I recommend experimenting 
with a spare disk to get more familiar with parted/qtparted.

Oh, and make a backup of your original data ... just in case.

>  If not, I'll go ahead and ask the nahant-list.

I'd ask there, too, anyways:

   http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nahant-list

BTW, why is it called nahant?

Regards,
- Robert
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