On Jan 29, 2008 2:53 PM, Dogsbody <dan at dogsbody.org> wrote: > > > 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? :-/ > AFAIK = As far as I know. I could be wrong. But, that said, the way a FAT partition is laid out, the FAT itself is a fixed sized entity. In order to resize it, one would have to change the cluster size (requiring a reformat) or change the FAT size, requiring some amount of relocation of clusters. The most likely implementation would be to save the existing files, re-allocate the FAT, then restore the files. Even under MS-DOS. In any case, if the partition you want to resize is after the one you want to expunge, that cannot be done without a save-reallocate-restore algorithm because the FAT is at the front end of the file system. Linux/UNIX file systems are not allocated that way and are slightly more flexible, but with an LVM YMMV. > Ho hum, thank you very much for the quick answer :-) > You're welcome, and I hope I was right! That's what I did with mine. mhr