partition management in linux

[oleksandr korneta]

on 04/17/2006 07:53 AM Aaron Konstam wrote:

>> -- 
> Well this seems like a job for a backup system. Yoi don't say what the
> sizes of the partitions are nor whether emply menas of size reated thasn
> zero but without contents.

this is 200GB drive.
vfat partition size is 32Gb (the maximum windows is capable to work with).
ext3 is the rest. And the latter one is ~80% full.


> Anyway the obvious thing to do if your drive is of manageable size ( 1
> terabyte for example) is to backup the data in the ext3 partition ,
> repartition and bring the data back. But that ios so obvious I assume
> your ext3 partition is humongous. Is that true?
it is not that large, as you can see, but I dont have that much free 
space on any other drive currently. Backuping the data on DVD will be 
the waste of time.

>   Another option is to reformat the fat32 partition to be ext3 and then
> parted might work,
Can you be more specific here? You mean parted will handle that job if 
the other partition will be ext3 as well? Why would it be so?

> Out of curiosity how did you get a disk with only extended partitions?

the drive served as an external storage before. It was installed in 
usb-enclosure. I didn't see the point to have a primary partition since 
it wasn't meant to be bootable. The vfat partitions was for there 
compatibility with MS OS`s.


-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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