partition management in linux - [solved]
Tim
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Thu Apr 20 23:29:03 UTC 2006
oleksandr korneta:
>> The goal is to delete the fat32 partition and extend the ext3 partition
>> to the whole drive without losing the data. There is no way for me to
>> backup this data - it is 200Gb drive. Neither gparted nor qtparted
>> cannot handle this task (I assume these are based on the same lib).
>> Presumably, parted will fail as well.
>>
>> Is there any tool for linux (preferably opensource) that is capable of
>> accomplishing of this task?
Many years ago I had to resize a partition before I could put Linux onto
a drive. If I recall correctly, it was a Linux tool called "fips" that
did it.
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