Partition Inconsistencies

[John M. Moniz]

Ian Petersen wrote:

> On 3/19/07, John M. Moniz <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> I did the enlarging of the / partition (ext3) using a live CD and the
>> partition was not mounted. However, there was an error in gparted during
>> the process. Perhaps the error stopped the process before the file
>> system was enlarged. So now how do I enlarge a file system when the
>> partition size has already been changed, without erasing everything in
>> the partition?
>
>
> First things first: do you have a backup?  I've never had trouble
> resizing a filesystem, but I've only done it a couple of times and I
> _always_ make a backup first, but I might be paranoid.
>
> Assuming you're comfortable with the safety of your data, the tool you
> need is resize2fs.  According to 'man resize2fs', you want something
> like this:
>
> resize2fs <device>
>
> So, assuming your / is on /dev/hda1, you want 'resize2fs /dev/hda1'.
> There is also a size parameter that you can specify after the device,
> but, according to the man page, if you omit the size parameter,
> resize2fs will enlarge the filesystem to fill the partition.
>
> HTH,
> Ian
>
On a similar vein, is it possible to *move* a partition and filesystem 
for those cases where the unallocated space on a disk lies *before* the 
start of a partition?

Thanks,

John.
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