Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like "Parted Magic" and others.
Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others.
-Ross
----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org centos-bounces@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tue Jan 29 17:53:07 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition
AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to delete both partitions and then create a new one.
I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions (albeit in MS DOS)? And this isn't possible in CentOS it self? :-/
Ho hum, thank you very much for the quick answer :-)
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Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like "Parted Magic" and others.
Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others.
And Gparted provides a very partition-magic like X11 interface to parted(?), I don't see it part of the standard CentOS 5.1 distribution, I've only used it under Ubuntu, and it can resize FAT32/NTFS etc no problem(not sure about FAT16).
$ apt-cache show gparted Package: gparted [..] Description: GNOME partition editor GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted.
nate
Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like "Parted Magic" and others.
Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others.
Unfortunately `parted` doesn't work with this setup where the partition size is different to the filesystem size and throws up lots of errors. I even tried downloading the latest version of parted but still no go :-/
Dan
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