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Re: [edlug] Resizing ext3 partitions?
Why don't you convert the ext3 volume to ext2 by flushing the journal
and removing the journal inode and then use parted? I think you can do
this just by unmounting the volume and then remounting it as ext2 and then
removing the journal.
Cheers
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Ian Stuart wrote:
>
> I want to re-partition my mp3 disk (currently 1 disk, 1 partition: 56G
> total, 11G used :-)
>
> As the largest available space is 3.4G, I don't think I'll be able to
> gzip my mp3's off the hard disk.
>
> parted only does ext2 partitions, so that's not available to me.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> (after that, it's going to have to be a very nice word with a sys-admin,
> and "borrow" 11G of space on a server for a day or so - which is a
> favour I'd rather keep for another day ;-)
>
> Oh, and if I can all this without having to drop out of multi-user mode,
> so much the better ;-)
>
>
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