From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] read: i/o error: at installation
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:03:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0610221103i7dfc7536t4be5da96f6c39c21@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae6312490610221015j2cd4c11ka7af63e28f0f6244@mail.gmail.com>
> >From the resize2fs() manpage:
> If you wish to shrink an ext2 partition, first use resize2fs to shrink the
> size of filesystem. Then you may use fdisk(8) to shrink the size of the
> partition. When shrinking the size of the partition, make sure you do not
> make it smaller than the new size of the ext2 filesystem!
>
> I've looked into fdisk(8), but found no way of shrinking a partition. I
> might be able to delete it and start it at the same cylinder, but that
> sounds risky.
That's exactly what the resize2fs man page is saying you should do.
I would stay far away from GNU parted. I've had nothing but bad
experiences with it.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-22 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-21 18:11 Yosyp Bin Laden
2006-10-21 18:49 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-21 20:12 ` Yosyp Bin Laden
2006-10-22 15:45 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-22 17:15 ` Yosyp Bin Laden
2006-10-22 18:03 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-10-23 0:04 ` Yosyp Bin Laden
2006-10-23 21:50 ` Yosyp Bin Laden
2006-10-22 15:42 ` erik quanstrom
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