I have done it quite often. Inserted and run the computer from a live CD so that the harddrive is not mounted an changed the partitions. It worked on the old reiserfs when I wiped the windows partition on my laptop to increase the space, it worked on ext3 partitions. Now I resized the swap partition and reduced the NTFS partition on my desktop - no problem. But it does not increase the ext4 partition. No error message it just does not do it. I tried several times with the suggested maximal setting, with a custom setting, etc. It just does not change size. Just for interest I booted into Suse11.0 live CD and tried from there. There I get the answer cannot resize partition as the file system does not allow resizing. Is something wrong with the system or does the partitioner not work with ext4?
Cheers
Uli
Maybe try Parted Magic
If possible post a screen and fdisk -l output
I’ve experienced the same when using Yast partitioner. Also saw a message saying “ext4 partitions cannot be resized”!
So backed up directories / files, deleted partition/s and then created new one/s to the required size.
Then restored.
On 2010-11-11 09:36, fuerstu wrote:
> Just for interest I booted into Suse11.0 live CD and tried from
> there. There I get the answer cannot resize partition as the file system
> does not allow resizing. Is something wrong with the system or does the
> partitioner not work with ext4?
The 11.0 CD can not do it: ext4 support was not included. Perhaps the 11.2
or 11.3 CD can resize the partition.
I assume we are talking of openSUSE 11.0 (obsolete), not SLES/SLED 11.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Hi Carlos,
My experience relates to openSUSE11.3_32bit. Not had the need to try it yet on a 64bit machine.
Well I tried out Parted Magic - it increased the partition to the free space I cleared on one side but not the one on the other side… However afterwards the computer did not boot any more. Rather than trying to fix it I reinstalled as I had messed things up with the screen settings (in this forum too). Re robin_listas - I knew that at the time of the opensuse 11.0 we had only ext3 but I had no newer live cd and the 11.3 obviously did not do the job - at least I could see what error message I received as the partitioner of 11.3 didn’t give any message. And obsolete or not you can still use the live CDs for partitioning as long as it is not using a newer format. So it seems that the partitioners are not working very well with ext4 - at lest on my system and keellamberts system too - my machine is a 64bitmachine.
For those interested here is the fdisk -l output:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c000c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 8 4457 35744625 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 4458 9726 42322944 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4458 4980 4192256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 8451 9726 10242048 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 7918 8451 4280320 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 6155 7918 14153728 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
At least now the partition is large enough for now. When I run out I try again - hopefully with a newer partitioning software.
Uli
It’s still messy
You realise the order is really
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 8 4457 35744625 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 4458 9726 42322944 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4458 4980 4192256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 **6155 ** 7918 14153728 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 7918 8451 4280320 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 8451 9726 10242048 b W95 FAT32
Is this bit in RED your problem. If you just re-installed, why didn’t you delete and reform them if you were having trouble re-sizing?
Yes I know - that is the free space which was left out when I tried to increase the partition. The partitioning with the parted magic CD started and went through all steps (and it took a while!) and finished without an error message and rebooted. I assumed it was all done but the computer did not boot. So I inserted the DVD and reinstalled and only noticed afterwards (I didn’t look too close during the install) that the empty space before the partition was not included (approx 10GB). Still I needed the computer so the install, upgrade and configuration was done. Most files are saved on the file server and I have approx 14GB for the Operating system which now is filling only approx 4 GB. As you say not tidy - my fault I was rushing it in order to be able to use the computer again but I can live with it. Next time …
Thanks
Uli