[ltp] Q: safe partition resize tool?

[David Payne]

I'm just wondering, does it even matter if you can see the hidden
partition or not as ong as you don't change that partition at all?

David Payne


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:37:06 -0500, T. Ivarsson <t.ivarsson@lycos.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Oleg Sverdlov <oleg@ols.co.il>
> 
> > I want to reduce the size of the main partition to create space for
> > extended partition to install Linux.
> >
> > Is it safe to remove the main partition, and create a new partition?
> >
> > The question is, what tool can you recommend that will make no harm to
> > hidden partition? Any hints to use Linux utilities? Is 'parted' safe to
> > use?
> 
> At the beginning, I started out with PartitionMagic to resize the XP partition to make room for Linux. PM is very simple to use, and I believe you won't even see the hidden IBM partition.
> 
> Recently I resized my /home partition to make room for another one (playing around with LFS). IIRC, QTParted cannot resize an ext3 partition. It can resize other filesystems but not ext3. Instead I used parted which can resize ext3. It may be that QTParted can see the hidden partition, I'm not sure. parted cannot see the partition (unless you unhide it in BIOS).
> 
> T.
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