From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:03:35 -0400 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] read: i/o error: at installation In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: d1c986d6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > >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