GParted won't resize a FAT32 partition.

[Tony Arnold]

Neil,

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:46 +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:

> However, there is still a problem;  neither GParted nor Qtparted appear to allow
> me to expand the existing linux partition, towards the end of the disc, back
> into the space freed by shrinking the FAT32 partition.  Reading the FAQs
> indicates that this is common to all the front ends for parted;  they will allow
> you to move partitions towards the end of the disc, but not back towards the
> beginning.
> 
> Is there any way of doing this?

I have a similar problem to solve on my desktop system at work. If the
space freed up by shrinking the FAT32 partition is bigger than the Linux
parition, then you should be able to copy the Linux partition into the
free space (I believe GParted will copy partitions), delete the old one
and then grow the copied partition. The partition will get a new name,
so you will have to fix up your fstab from a Live CD, and also grub's
menu.lst.

The only other solution is to use something like partimage to dump the
linux partition off, and then restore it.

Regards,
Tony.
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