partition management in linux
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Apr 17 21:17:14 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 07:59 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I thought I had an idea but on further thought it was not a good idea.
>
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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