[ltp] Combine 2 partitions?

[Adam Southerland]

Yes, the DOS->EXT2 Partition is empty =)
I tried mounting a network drive, but it is NTFS so I lost linux permissions 
that are required =(

I will look into both Partition Magic and GNU parted.

Thanks!

Adam Southerland


I don't think that there's anything that will non-destructively merge
two data-containing partitions, HOWEVER there's plenty of stuff to take
an "empty" partition and merge it into a pre-existing partition (often
by moving data around if there's something else physically between the
two partitions on disk).  In your case, it sounds like your recently
converted DOS->EXT2 partition is functionally empty (i.e. you don't care
about what's on it), so this may fit the bill.

I've had a lot of success with PartitionMagic, a commercial product
which happens to also work nicely for NTFS.  GNU parted is free.  I
haven't tried it, but it looks quite fine for linux partitions.  Either
should help you out.


Regards,
Neil



On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:42, Adam Southerland wrote:
 > Good day!
 >
 > I have another question... Not Thinkpad specific, but my problem is on 
it...
 >
 > When I first built it I gave is a 300Mb DOS parition and the remainder 
was
 > Linux... (1.2Gb drive)
 >
 > I have been trying to install/compile Wine on it... the Instructions says 
it
 > will take approx 250Mb to build on and then 50 Mb to install (and 18Mb in
 > /tmp)
 >
 > I have 350Mb free on my / and 300 on my DOS Partition (I redid DOS to 
make
 > it EXT2 and formatted it...
 >
 > Building Wine on either partition fails due to lack of space... is there 
a
 > way (without rebuilding) to combine these 2 partitions together so I can
 > build Wine?
 >
 > Or possibly copt all parts of say /usr to /dev/hda1 (Previously DOS) and 
put
 > that in my fstab?
 > (That way, my primary partition woud have more free space?...)  I don't 
know
 > what will work or what will kill my box =(
 >
 > I'd like to keep it up and running though...
 >
 > Adam

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