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ramoneur

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Registered: 2007-06-04

Posts: 89

[SOLVED] help on splitting my root ext3 partition in half

so i installed arch on my new laptop a few days ago and have it configured the way i want, 6-7 days of hard work.

and i dont know why but i didnt get myself a /home seperate partition, but i really want that, and i dont want to reinstall now.

its a 160gb drive,
my partition table is as follows:
/ ~100gb, ext3
/swap ~2gb, swap
/win ~50gb, ntfs

i just want to split the first partition in half like this:
/ ~15gb, ext3
/home ~85gb, ext3
(and ofcourse still keep the swap and win partitions)

and i havent installed anything beyond that 15gb so no data would be destroyed (if not ext3 has spread data all over the partition, which i doubt ).

so i started gparted and saw that i couldnt do anything with a mounted drive, so i put the archlive cd in (latest 2008.06) and read about parted,
i didnt get that to work either since it didnt resize ext3 drives.
i also tried with partition magic via my windows dualboot, but that didnt work either...

also i would appreciate help on how to manage my fstab after this is fixed, i dont know anything about this uuid thingy.
ill post my fstab for you guys: http://pastebin.com/m2970023d

Last edited by ramoneur (2008-07-29 20:40:46)

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] help on splitting my root ext3 partition in half

I normally keep an old ubuntu cd for using Gparted off from it. And EXT3 is definitely resizable and movable.

But you can also use the GParted Live Cd.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

Last edited by Inxsible (2008-07-29 18:57:37)

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ramoneur

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Registered: 2007-06-04

Posts: 89

Re: [SOLVED] help on splitting my root ext3 partition in half

i didnt know there were a gparted livecd dist, very nice indeed, thank you for the link! it fixed it perfectly.
and as for the fstab issues, this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131 was very informative!

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