partition tip ?

[John Poelstra]

Arne Chr. Jorgensen said the following on 01/28/2008 05:19 PM Pacific Time:
> hi,
> 
> What would be a smart way to partition a disk ?
> 
> I have Fedora core 6 installed, but would like to test F8 and have it as 
> a separate partition  However - I had used the entire disk, and I have 
> not found
> any way to resize the partition.  Have tried "resize2fs" - but it says 
> "online resizing required".  What does that mean ?

Is virtualization an option for you?  Naturally you'll need extra disk 
space for each virtual machine and memory.

I've been running http://www.virtualbox.org/ for the last week and had 
great success.  I had to tweak a few things to get bridged networking 
going which I can post on here if there is interest.

Before that I also gave virt-manager and VMWare Server a run though. 
Right now I'd say Virtualbox is the easiest to configure and use for 
testing a new release, though I'm sure there will be plenty of people 
who disagree and have had other experiences :)  I am running these 
virtualization applications on top of Fedora 8 on x86_64

John