Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot

[Jerry Feldman]

Note that Knoppix will use your swap partition. You should turn off
swap before you run QTParted. 
You also should run QTParted as root. Normally, when booting Knoppix
you are a regular user. Just bring up an xterm or console, the "su -"
to become root, then turn off the swap:
swapoff  /dev/hda6
Then run qtparted:
qtparted&

You should be able to resize if you have sufficient space.
(I've done this quite a few times).

 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:05:19 -0500
Zhao Peng <greenmt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm back to bug you guys on this thread. (BTW, It's very likely that I 
> may use some terms incorrectly, due to my unfamiliarity with linux. 
> Sorry about that. :) )
> 
> In case you may forget, let me repeat my situation:
> 
> only 1 hard drive, and only RedHat Enterprise installed on it, and no 
> unallocated free space.
> 
> In order to resize the hard drive to give some space to Fedora, I used 
> Qtparted on Knoppix live DVD (I don't have Partition Magic). 
> Unfortunately it didn't work.
> 
> My current RedHat partition is as follows:
> 
> hda1   ext3
> hda2   ext3
> hda3   ext3
> hda4   extended
> hda5   ext3
> hda6   swap
> hda7   ext3
> 
> Note: hda4 consists of hda5, hda6, and hda7.
> 
> When I right-click on the above partitions one by one, "resize" is 
> gray-out for all partitions, except hda4. So I went ahead to resize 
> hda4. I set "Free space after" to 30 gb. (hda4 has 42 gb, and no more 
> than 3 gb is used). Then I got a small pop-up window w/o any information 
> on it, except for a question mark.
> 
> I googled and found the table at this link: 
> http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html
> 
>  From this table, I suspect that Qtparted can NOT resize ext3/ext2 type 
> partition. Am I right?
> 
> If this is the case, what other EASY tools do you recommend me to try? 
> (I also tried Gparted live CD at 
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php, but had problems booting the 
> machine from it)
> 
> Thank you for all input you have given. I really appreciate that.
> 
> Zhao
> 
> 
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