Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot

[Python]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:42 -0500, Zhao Peng wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> Below is what I did.
> 
> 1 regular boot up from Knopixx
> 2 bring up konsole
On my Knoppix 3.9 I can bring up a root console directly from the
Penguin Icon at the lower left (second icon from left) corner.
> 3 su -
No longer needed
> 4 swapoff /dev/hda6
> 5 qtparted &

X should work now - at least this works for me.  You may need to first
shrink the partitions within hda4.  I do not have any disk setup
remotely like this to test with.

> 
> For step 5, I got a line saying "qtparted: cannot connect to X server"
> 
> So I started qtparted via "K menu" -> "systems", and  tried to resize 
> hda4 (which is extended partition, and still the only partition the 
> "resize" is not gray-out). Hda4 has size of  46.04 gb, consisting of 
> hda5 thru hda7, used space for these 3 partitions is less than 1 gb.
> 
> So I right-clicked on hda4, and selected "resize", and set "Free after 
> space" at 40 gb, and committed change from "File" menu. The pop-up 
> windows says that the operation is successful. BUT, hda4 is still 46.04 
> gb, and nothing changed! So I tried to commit changes from "Device" 
> menu, the operation is also successful, but it didn't make any 
> difference: hda4 was NOT resized.
> 
> Gee, I'm sooooooo frustrated. //crying..........
> 
> z
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