[lug] Re: Partitions management with fdisk

may be looking at parted or partitionmagic should help you .

On 12/21/05, Velocity <mishra.tapasvi@gmail.com > wrote:

I have 2 questions
In my System I have
Windows ,Fedora Core 3 and Suse 10.0 free version on my 80 GB hard
disk
with 15 GB to Fedora 15 GB to Suse and 50 GB to windows
I want to reduce the Suse from 15 to some 8 GB and give that space to
windows
How can this be done using fdisk I dont have any data to be lost on
Suse
but I want Suse to keep running on my system
how can I do

'Beside this is there any way that I can mark the partitiones having
Suse as Suse to remember
here /dev/hda8 and /dev/hda9 are the Suse  partitions I am sharing
Swap between Fedora and Suse
what commands are required following are the entries of my partition
table


Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks       Id    System
/dev/hda1   *           1         609     4891761         b     W95
FAT32
/dev/hda2             610        9733    73288530       f     W95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/hda5             610        1825     9767488+      b    W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6            1826        3041     9767488+     b     W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7            3042        4257     9767488+     b     W95 FAT32
/dev/hda8            4258        6216    15735636      83    Linux
/dev/hda9            6217        6229      104391        83    Linux
/dev/hda10           6230        6295      530113+     82    Linux swap
/dev/hda11           6296        6308      104391       83    Linux
/dev/hda12           6309        8220    15358108+   83    Linux

--
Nikhil

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