Edit a partition space

Hello

I want to edit the space of my partition in which there is the suse because now it is very small.I know the name of the partition but i don’t know how to do it.Please help me :slight_smile:

First open a terminal and go su and do

fdisk -l

from that tell us which is the part you want to make bigger - then we can have a look

Which partition do you want to increase?

Here is the whole content of the command fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc2c5c2c5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *        4463       19457   120447337+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            4463        7709    26081496    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            7710        8317     4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            8318        8925     4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            8926       18242    74832031+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9           18243       19093     6835626   83  Linux
/dev/sda10          19094       19457     2923798+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

I want to remove the sda6 and sda7 and add that space to sda9 with is suse.How can i do this?

I’m not sure. I don’t profess to anything of an expert in this area but I have some idea.

I can’t just confirm in my mind what your setup is - Thing is: If you delete 6+7. Is sda9 a combined root and home partition?

As I see it you have a partition in the way sda8
If you delete sda6 and sda7 - I think what you will need to do is expand sda8 back into that free space - Then shrink sda8 to free up space to be accessible to sda9 (It’s a kind of Binary Arts Puzzle).

You should be able to do it with a Parted Magic CD. (And it may even be possible from within a running Suse system using Yast Partitioner - so long as you can un-mount those partitions - and this option might be better in some respects because you need to make sure fstab is correct because the partition table has changed.)

If you use Parted Magic then you will need to boot a live distro to get to edit fstab. Consider also where is grub located MBR? And entries in menu.lst may have to be manually removed.

In the partition sda9 there is the whole suse.Is there any tutorial how to do all these staff which you say?

I don’t know of a tutorial - And anyway every case is different. All your partitions are within and extended partition and are known as logical partitions.

I would like to see mingus725 in this thread
you could always PM
openSUSE Forums - View Profile: mingus725
da man in this area

Not recommended to PM users with questions.

/Geoff