resizing ESX 3.5 Linux partitions

[sunhux G]

Hi,

On my development VMWare ESX 3.5, I have the following :
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 85.9 GB, 85905637376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10444 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1     10444  83891366   fb  Unknown
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 440.3 GB, 440345714688 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53535 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
           Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *         1       100    803218+  83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2           101      1120   8193150   82  Linux swap
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3          1121      1603   3879697+  83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4          1604     53535 417143790    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5          1604      1985   3068383+  83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6          1986      2307   2586433+  fb  Unknown
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7          2308      2320    104391   fc  Unknown
How can I take some space from c0d0p4 to add it to c0d0p5?
Is c0d0p5 & c0d0p6 (& what about c0d0p7) linked to each other?
(As there's a +  sign there - what does the +  sign indicate).
How can I mount c0d0p5 - it hangs  when I tried to mount it by
"mount /dev/cciss/c0d0p5  /mount_directory".  Now when I issue
"fdisk -l", the display lists till c0d0p7 & hangs there (doesn't come
back to Unix command prompt even after the ESX is rebooted).

I'm trying to a bit more space to the Linux fs below:
# df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3      3818672   1223876   2400812  34% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1       790556     38440    711956   6% /boot
none                    134284         0    134284   0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5      3020140    267092   2599632  10% /var


I'm comparing with our Production ESX 3.5 :
Disk /dev/sda: 75.1 GB, 75169267712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9138 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1      9138  73400921   fb  Unknown
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17844 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
           Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2            14       650   5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3           651     17508 135411885   fb  Unknown
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4         17509     17844   2698920    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5         17509     17577    554211   82  Linux swap
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6         17578     17831   2040223+  83  Linux <== only one
with +
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7         17832     17844    104391   fc  Unknown
& we have bigger Linux fs :
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2      5036316   1296988   3483496  28% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1       101089     26276     69594  28% /boot
none                    134284         0    134284   0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6      2008108     63180   1842920   4% /var/log





I have the following steps from someone to resize a Linux swap partition.
It gave no
error when the steps/commands are executed (in Unix Single user mode) in ESX
3.5
but after it's rebooted, the new size did not take effect, thus it did not
work.  I probably
can't use it this time to resize this time :

use "fdisk -l" to find out if swap device ie /dev/hda3
parted
select /dev/hda3
print
resize  START END
quit
quit