Re: shrink reiserfs

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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Jake Hawkes wrote:
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|  - reboot after every step, to check that you haven't messed something up,
| especially if after writing a new partition, fdisk say "Kernel will
| continue to use old partition table".

Only if that happens.  And it will only happen if you are using the disk
in question, so...

[...]
|  - always have an alternative boot media handy (I use the gentoo live CD)

I'd use it in the first place, to avoid having to reboot after fdisk.
And I'd use cfdisk.  Less chance for mistakes.

|  - be very familiar (ie, dont rely on man pages or web pages) with your
| tools, especially resize_reiserfs, grub, mount etc

It's good to have such documentation available, whether or not you know
resize_reiserfs by heart.  The important thing is to train yourself to
always look at the doc, and never guess, especially when a typo can mean
your disk.

| End Result: good so far.  I haven't completely finished yet, still to do
| are finalising the grub install, and creating the new FAT partition to
| share data between windows and linux.

I'm curious why windows would be needed on a laptop.  I only use it for
games.  But maybe your laptop is better than mine.

And btw, when I mess with my laptop partitions, I usually tar up
everything and dump it to my desktop.  Just make sure the boot cd has
ethernet support.

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