Playing with disk partitions


Yesterday I decided to quadruple my swap (from 256mb to 1gb) so that I can play more hands in poker before having to restart the application that continually eats more and more of my memory.

Firstly I cut off that 1gb out of my fat32 data partition, that went relatively easy with me only having to umount all the partitions around and that was basically all.

Then I destroyed the former swap, which is after my ext3 linux partition and before fat32 data one. I thought it would be neat to add these 256mb to my ext3 (yeah, I still have 40gb hdd which has been completely full for a very long time) but that obviously wasn’t possible as there is root mounted and I couldn’t umount it. So I tried to run a live cd and thought all would be ok, but for some reason qtparted doesn’t want to enlarge that ext3. :-(
Sorry for boring geekish post…

Posted on 2006-03-16 at 12:10 pm, filed under computers, linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Playing with disk partitions”

  1. Ondra says:
    March 22nd, 2006 at 2:51 pm

    Jojo, mám zkušenosti s několika GNU/Linuxovými nástroji, že měnit velikost paritions jde jenom u FAT32 a NTFS. Cože je divný… Asi to nějak jde ale zas tak do hloubky jsem nešel.

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